Getting error: read ECONNRESET when trying to use nodemailer with Hover.com email

Question

I'm relatively new to node.js for server development and definitely new to nodemailer, but it seems like a great option for my needs. I have it working with a gmail account as a test, but I've been trying to convert it to use an email address through Hover.com, but I'm getting an error: read ECONNRESET. I've triple-checked all of my parameters (host, port, user, pass, etc.) and everything looks okay and their help hasn't been able to help me yet either, so I thought I'd ask here.

My coffeescript for creating the transport is below:

transport = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP", {
  host: "mail.hover.com"
  secureConnection: true
  port: 465
  auth: {
    user:
    pass:
}})

Thanks!

Answer 1

I posted a similar question on nodemailer on github and someone was able to help me there by indicating that it might be an issue in the TLS library of Node v0.10.x and that I could address it by changing my options to be:

{
    host: "mail.hover.com"
    secureConnection: true
    port: 465
    auth: {
        user: "---"
        pass: "---"
    }
    tls: {
        secureProtocol: "TLSv1_method"
    }
}

Answer 2

I had this problem and have been trying to fix it for hours. The above answer helped me find the solution, but at least in my case it wasn't because I needed to specify a protocol. I had set up the object wrong, and put user: and pass: directly in the configuration object, rather than in their own auth: subobject.

I was doing this:

const carrier = createTransport({
   host: 'mail.privateemail.com',
   port: 465,
   user: 'someone@somewhere.net',
   pass: 'my password'
});

...and fixed it like this, adding in the auth: {} object:

const carrier = createTransport({
   host: 'mail.privateemail.com',
   port: 465,
   auth: {
      user: 'someone@somewhere.net',
      pass: 'my password'
   }
});