Send Nodemailer e-mail with Namecheap email

Question

I have been successful connecting a Gmail account with Xoauth, but I recently acquired a Namecheap privateemail account and can't for the life of me figure out how to set it up. This is the code that I have:

var smtp = nodemailer.createTransport({
    host: 'mail.privateemail.com',
    port: 25,
    auth: {
        user: '[email protected]',
        pass: 'mypassword'
    }
});

I saw this question and tried all the other port numbers.

Trellis

Answer 1

It may be secured connection in that case the port should be 465

465 port for SSL, 25 or 26 for TLS/STARTTLS

Bluebottle

Answer 2

According to Namecheap support website as of Nov 7, 2017 - configuration to send messages through Namecheap Private Email server:

Outgoing server (SMTP): port 465 for SSL, port 587 for TLS/STARTTLS

Outgoing server authentication should be switched on,
SPA (secure password authentication) must be disabled.

Fiddlefaddle

Oh and, outgoing server name to use: mail.privateemail.com. BTW, TLS/STARTTLS is secure. – Fiddlefaddle

If the flag secure is set True, then you need to use 465, otherwise you get error Error: 8541117952:error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:ssl/record/ssl3_record.c:332: – Heterochromous

Answer 3

Instructions for sending emails through Nodemailer with a Namecheap private email.

These instructions assume you have created your mailbox through Namecheap and have configured your DNS settings through your DNS provider.

1. Create environment variables:

• host ("mail.privateemail.com")
• user ("your namecheap email address")
• pass ("the associated password to this email address").
• sender email ("The email address you would like to send the email from")

2. Create your Nodemailer transporter:

    const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
      host: host,
      port: 465,
      secure: true, // use false for STARTTLS; true for SSL on port 465
      auth: {
        user: user,
        pass: pass
      },
      logger: true, // Enable logging
      debug: true // Enable debug output
    });
   

3. Sending an email from your email to your inbox:

    const mailOptions = {
      from: sender_email, // Sender's email address.
      to: sender_email, // Recipient's name and email address.
      subject: "New Email", // Subject line.
      text: message // Plaintext body.
    };
   
    // Send email and log the response.
    const response = await transporter.sendMail(mailOptions);
   

Tier