Cannot send emails via SMTP from local environment (Node) - authentication error. Have not tested in remote

[mgaussie]

Experienced by both @Philip_J and myself. Lots of detail in this post:

Should you be be able to emails when working on a local Node or Docker project?

Hey, Just trying to set up the mailer settings today and can’t get it to work. Not sure if its a bug or issue on my end. I’m only working on a local node project so wasn’t sure if using an SMTP mailer sever would work because nothing else to do with the project is using that host provider. I’ve tried to with gmail settings and also the mail server settings from a webhost i have for an old website. These are the details provided by my webhost, and work fine for setting up in Outlook etc. […

Both are experiencing authentication issues and returning 500 errors.

[patrick]

Please test with following update, place file in lib/modules.

mail.zip (1.5 KB)

[mgaussie]

Thank you @patrick - this fixed it for me.

[Philip_J]

Yes, thanks. This also fixed my issues too, and presumably anyone else with NodeJS

[ben]

Fixed for me also, many thanks.

[Teodor]

This has been fixed in Wappler 3.1