Nodemailer: connect ECONNREFUSED on AWS with SMTP

[murvinlai]

I have an AWS EC2 with port 25 opened. Here is my code:
var nodemailer = require("nodemailer");

var smtp = {
server: 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
username: 'SMTPUSERNAMEXXXX',
password: 'SMTPPASSWORD'
}

var mailOptions = {
from: "Murvin Lai [email protected]", // sender address
to: "[email protected]", // list of receivers
subject: "Hello", // Subject line
text: "Hello world", // plaintext body
html: "Hello world" // html body
}

var transport = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP", {
host: smtp.server,
auth: {
user: smtp.username,
pass: smtp.password
}

});

transport.sendMail(mailOptions, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log("Error: " + err);

    } else {
            console.log("Sent: " + data.message);

    }

});

I run this and I got this error:

Error: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED

I inspect the error and this is the detail:
{ [Error: connect ECONNREFUSED]
code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
syscall: 'connect' }

by the way, I have verified my email. Also, if I run it with SES ( with access id & key), it works.

So, what's the problem in my SMTP call?

[murvinlai]

Figure out.

[hughht5]

how did you figure this out? I have a similar issue.
thanks

[murvinlai]

It is a working piece of code. The problem was the SMTP password. I think when I didn't copy the entire thing and caused the problem. And also, I was in AWS sandbox mode, so, I verified the sender, but not the recipient. After I verified that, it worked.

[hughht5]

I can run this locally on my mac, but on my server it won't work. I assume
then its not the password.

Thanks

On Monday, 23 September 2013, Murvin Lai wrote:

It is a working piece of code. The problem was the SMTP password. I think
when I didn't copy the entire thing and caused the problem. And also, I was
in AWS sandbox mode, so, I verified the sender, but not the recipient.
After I verified that, it worked.

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[murvinlai]

check the security. You need to open up port 25 from your server. :)

[zeucxb]

@hughht5 How u fixed it?

I have the same problem.

[murvinlai]

@ZeuCxb have you check the port and security settings (e.g. firewall)

[zeucxb]

@murvinlai In my case the code work in localhost, but when i try in production the same code returns ECONNREFUSED. I don`t know if is a error or a problem with aws or in my smtp server.

[hughht5]

I think it was the firewall. It was a long time ago though so not sure.
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[email protected]> wrote:

@murvinlai https://github.com/murvinlai In my case the code work in
localhost, but when i try in production the same code returns ECONNREFUSED.
I don`t know if is a error or a problem with aws or in my smtp server.

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[murvinlai]

it seems like security policy not set properly. by default, port 25 is not opened, you need to allow it. Have you tried the steps I posted above?

[zeucxb]

@murvinlai Yeah i try, i just don`t understand why the server can sand emails using gmail :l

[zeucxb]

@murvinlai @hughht5 Thanks, i just changed smtp to smtpi and it worked

[coder618]

Not working on EC2 instance.
All of my instance ports are open.
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({ service: 'gmail', auth: { user: 'iam****[email protected]', pass: ' ' } });

[coder618]

After making 3 changes from Google Account its finally working.

1. https://accounts.google.com/b/0/displayunlockcaptcha
2. https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
3. https://g.co/allowaccess

:)