node-red/node-red-nodes

Irrelevant credential errors in node-red-node-email

erunaheru opened this issue · 9 comments

erunaheru commented

Which node are you reporting an issue on?

Outbound email node

What are the steps to reproduce?

Create an email node that does not have a username or password

What happens?

After each deploy, debug log fills with "No e-mail userid set" and "No e-mail password set" errors, one of each for each node. The nodes otherwise function properly.

What do you expect to happen?

No error messages.

Please tell us about your environment:

  • Node-RED version: 3.0.2
  • node.js version: 16.16.0
  • npm version: 8.11.0
  • Platform/OS: Official Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 host
  • Browser: Brave
SynoUser-NL commented

Hi,
Can confirm this, with node.js version 18.12. However when sending an email the node displays a "send failed" message.
Debug info: "Error: Missing credentials for "PLAIN""
Please consider adding Authentication: none as an option.
Also, a debug on/off option would be greatly appreciated. :)
Thank you.
DenW

dceejay commented

So this is only a problem if you have an email server that doesn't need authentication ? Seems odd to ever allow that ?

SynoUser-NL commented

Well.. i've set up an internal email relay that only responds to emails sent from adresses in a defined domain, only from within the local network, and then sends\forwards the email to an external (authenticated) email server.
This is working perfectly for a great number of devices\applications, none of which have any problem sending mail to a network-internal unauthenticated email server\relay. And this has been working perfectly for Node-RED flow mails as well..

While I do agree that an email server should normally be configured with authentication, there are some (a few) use cases where this is simply not necessary. And as far as I know it is not a requirement (as defined in RfC's, but correct me if i'm wrong on that..).

So I'm kindly requesting to please enable this option, you'll have my eternal undying gratitude.. 👍 🥇 :)

Thank you! DenW

erunaheru commented

I have a similar set up, the mail server accepts email only from the internal Docker network but otherwise does not have any authentication.

excessnet commented

same here, anti-spam servers use no authentications for internal relay. Was working fine before this update.

dceejay commented

OK - will add a NONE option

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excessnet commented

OK - will add a NONE option

Thanks a lot !

SynoUser-NL commented

Thank you! As said before: extremely appreciated!

DenW

erunaheru commented

Works great, thank you!

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