emailjs throwing a getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND smtp.gmail.com error

[saicharanp]

var email = require('emailjs/email');

var server = email.server.connect({
        user:    "[email protected]",
        password:"password22",
        host:    "smtp.gmail.com ",
        ssl:     true,
        port : 465
    });
    server.send({
        text:    "i hope this works",
        from:    "user <[email protected]>",
        to:      "user <[email protected]>",
        cc:      "",
        subject: "testing emailjs"
    }, function(err, message) { console.log(err || message); });

I am getting the following error in console

{ [Error: connection encountered an error]
  code: 5,
  previous:
   { [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND smtp.gmail.com ]
     code: 'ENOTFOUND',
     errno: 'ENOTFOUND',
     syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
     hostname: 'smtp.gmail.com ' },
  smtp: undefined }

[eleith]

i can not replicate.

this error "getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND smtp.gmail.com" likely means your DNS is not resolving smtp.gmail.com for some reason.

try on another machine to verify that this is indeed the case

[ashutoshdev-zz]

Hello ,
I am also getting error
Server up: http://localhost:3300
{ [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND 1234 1234:465]
code: 'ENOTFOUND',
errno: 'ENOTFOUND',
syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
hostname: '1234',
host: '1234',
port: 465 }

[XiSmartElf]

same here

[IveSix]

same here

[wujunchuan]

same here

[AlwaBysi]

same here

[wujunchuan]

After that I solved this problem.
You can make sure your DNS can resolving the Email server address.

just have a try

nslookup smtp.gmail.com

[siteantipas]

I have tried the above code
nslookup smtp.gmail.com
in command prompt, my machine can resolve to it but it still giving that error.

[gelinger777]

just for those who could be having this error. Please check that you did not copy by mistake a white-space before or after the value of the SMTP server host. In that case DNS resolver fails.

[zackschuster]

@eleith do you think we should trim the host etc. strings?

[gelinger777]

@zackschuster yes, a basic trim whitespaces before after and remove unallowed characters for domain name would be good. Sorry for answering instead of @eleith

[eleith]

@zackschuster / @gelinger777 good point.

i think it depends on what is the best way to define the intent of the user input in this API.

there are two approaches

1. treat input as suggestive and the library fixes input when there is some level of confidence

2. treat input as determinant and provide better error messaging like did you mean X instead of Y ?

if we isolate this treatment to the host, trimming feels appropriate / high confidence enough without having to wade deeper into what to do with all the other input handling =]

[zackschuster]

@eleith i agree, the first change should be limited to host & more changes can be explored later if desired or necessary. off the top of my head i think we would want to evaluate the existential checks next (e.g. !str or str1 || str2).

[zackschuster]

@eleith should we move forward with host trimming?

[eleith]

sounds good!

[zackschuster]

@eleith done in b3fa0ba. i chose to do it the more verbose way to leave user configuration intact, in case changing that would confuse anyone :)