Nodemailer connection timeout error

Question

I am using nodemailer module to send mail from my nodejs application. I am getting Error: connect ETIMEDOUT xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:465. Can any one help me in solving this. Here I am pasting my code.

var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'Gmail',
auth: {
    user: '[email protected]',
    pass: 'my_gmail_password'
}
});

console.log('created');
transporter.sendMail({
from: '[email protected]',
  to: '[email protected]',
  subject: 'hello world!',
  text: 'hello world!'
});

Solution 1

This may be firewall problem. I faced similar problem in Ubuntu (Digital Ocean server). Tried to fix the issue for 3 days, tried using auth2 also, tried with inactive firewall using ufw inactive command, but no luck. Finally I checked Digital Ocean admin panel and created firewall for the droplet. Problem solved by enabling TCP inbound and outbound in firewall settings.

Solution 2

Have you looked at this answer.

It turns out that in order for Google to authorize a third party server to access your account via SMTP now, you have to enable “Less Secure Apps” on your gmail account, if you want to use username/password (more info here).

So you have two option:

• use OAuth

• make your account less secure