(nodemailer)Google disabled the less secure app option on google accounts i would like to find a way to send email with google .Or any other way

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I would like to find a way to send email from my app to the users either with some kind of google authentication or any other way...

const nodemailer = require('nodemailer')

const sendEmail = async options => {
const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    // host: "smtp.gmail.com",
    // port: "465",
    // secure: true,
    service:'gmail',
    auth: {
        user: "USER_EMAIL",
        pass: "USER_PASSWORD"
    },
    tls:{rejectUnauthorized:false}
})

const message = {
    from: `${process.env.FROM_NAME} <${process.env.FROM_EMAIL}>`,
    to: options.email,
    subject: options.subject,
    text: options.message,
    html: options.message,
    attachments: [
        {
            filename: '.png',
            path: __dirname + '.png',
            cid: '.png'
        }
    ]
}

const info = await transporter.sendMail(message)
console.log('Message sent : %s', info.messageId)
console.log(__dirname)
}
module.exports = sendEmail

It worked fine as long as google had the less secure app option but since then i am struggling to find a way.

nodemailer oauth-2.0 node.js gmail
2 Answers

At the time of writing, Less Secure Apps is no longer supported by google. And you can't use your google account password.

You're gonna have to generate a new app password.

App passwords only work if 2-step verification is turned on. Follow this steps to get the app password

  1. Go to https://myaccount.google.com/security
  2. Enable 2FA
  3. Create App Password for Email
  4. Copy that password (16 characters) into the pass parameter in Nodemailer auth.
const client = nodemailer.createTransport({
    service: "Gmail",
    auth: {
        user: "username@gmail.com",
        pass: "Google-App-Password-Without-Spaces"
    }
});

client.sendMail(
    {
        from: "sender",
        to: "recipient",
        subject: "Sending it from Heroku",
        text: "Hey, I'm being sent from the cloud"
    }
)
user_88512030

You should check out Xoauth2.

Nodmailer supports serval types of Oauth

let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
  host: "smtp.gmail.com",
  port: 465,
  secure: true,
  auth: {
    type: "OAuth2",
    user: "user@example.com",
    clientId: "000000000000-xxx0.apps.googleusercontent.com",
    clientSecret: "XxxxxXXxX0xxxxxxxx0XXxX0",
    refreshToken: "1/XXxXxsss-xxxXXXXXxXxx0XXXxxXXx0x00xxx",
    accessToken: "ya29.Xx_XX0xxxxx-xX0X0XxXXxXxXXXxX0x",
    expires: 1484314697598,
  },
});
user_18418390
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