Nodemailer with 535 5.7.3 Authentication unsuccessful

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Hi I had a small web app. send the email through the form . I use smtp

const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: ‘smtp-mail.outlook.com’,
port: 587,
auth: {
user: process.env.EMAIL,
pass: process.env.PASS,
}
});

during the build process the system : it will give me the : Error: Invalid login: 535 5.7.3 Authentication unsuccessful [CH2PR04CA0014.namprd04.prod.outlook.com]…
…

even it is correct , I test it locally and even employed on from Heroku and worked
any ideas how to fix this ?
chao

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Hey @chaowow

Have you set the EMAIL and PASS environment variables in the UI?

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Yes I tried some different ways even the ones no secure at all. .Still not working

Chao

from mobile

4

Different ways for/of what?

You have set the environment variables as per the example below?

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I’m not sure why this would happen during build as functions only run when invoked (as I understand.)

Can you share the repository you are deploying?

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Yes

that’s exactly what I did .

By the different way I meant : I directly changed the user and pass as they are , just to test.

I made a simple one repo just to test : GitHub - cz101/nodemailer: A simple mailer test for third party smtp
Netlify site : brave-mirzakhani-44b160

Chao

6

Perhaps try the answer offered here

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Hi Coelmay

thanks for looking into it, It didn’t work based on their suggestions , which is 2016 . I’m not convinced that it is on outlook smtp server , otherwise heroku and my local PC wont work , I use the same code.

could it be firewall on netlify has more restrictions on those kinda
requests ?
Chao

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There is no such firewall or blocking of requests that I am aware of. I have Nodemailer running (not using Outlook) and have no issues.

Searching for Error: Invalid login: 535 5.7.3 Authentication unsuccessful (see results) I found:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/535-573-authentication-unsuccessful/cd915151-ae89-4505-8ad3-29680554e710

Have you tried logging out the username/password when the function runs to see the values are correct e.g.

console.log(process.env.EMAIL);
console.log(process.env.PASS);
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HI Coel

It worked this time , not sure what changed . I console log the info (it was correct and comment it out , also works , )
…
10:46:06 PM: [nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
10:46:06 PM: [nodemon] starting node server.js
10:46:06 PM: ========info=====
10:46:08 PM: connected to DB
10:46:10 PM: Live/Outlook Server is ready
…

but another problem, the deploy are still in progress , which should be finished . did I miss some setting config in netlify?

Thanks for the previous effort
Chao

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You’re trying to run an instance of node judging by this command. This isn’t something you can do with Netlify.

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11

Got it .

Thanks for everything btw!
:slight_smile:

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