Email plugin from own gmail address

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1

i’m trying to setup an email system for password confirmation and such.

the default strapi plugin isn’t supported on gmail, yahoo etc, does anyone have an up-to-date idiot-proof tutorial that explains in details how to setup such an email system on strapi, using one’s personal gmail as the sender?

thank you!!

2

you need Nodmailer
and your config:

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  // ...
  email: {
    config: {
      provider: 'nodemailer',
      providerOptions: {
        host: 'smtp.gmail.com',
        port: 465,
        auth: {
          user: 'gmail_username',
          pass: 'gmail_password',
        },
        // ... any custom nodemailer options
      },
      settings: {
        defaultFrom: 'username@gmail.com',
        defaultReplyTo: 'username@gmail.com',
      },
    },
  },
  // ...
});

it cant be more up to date idiot-proof

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3

Thanks for your answer.
I added the code in config/plugins.js, and have “strapi-provider-email-nodemailer” version ^3.6.8

I’m getting the following error, which doesn’t appear without the change, I couldn’t debug it, do you have an idea where it comes from

[2022-04-13 15:46:13.188] debug: :no_entry: Server wasn’t able to start properly.
[2022-04-13 15:46:13.190] error: provider.init is not a function

4

I tried the following:

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
// …
email: {
provider: env(‘EMAIL_PROVIDER’),
providerOptions: {
host: env(‘EMAIL_SMTP_HOST’),
port: env(‘EMAIL_SMTP_PORT’),
auth: {
user: env(‘EMAIL_SMTP_USER’),
pass: env(‘EMAIL_SMTP_PASS’),
},
},
settings: {
defaultFrom: env(‘EMAIL_ADDRESS_FROM’),
defaultReplyTo: env(‘EMAIL_ADDRESS_REPLY’),
testAddress: ‘test@strapi.io’,
},
},
// …
})
I set all the variables in the .env file, the provider is nodemailer, which gives me the following error,

When running the following:
curl --location --request POST ‘localhost:1337/email/’
–header ‘Content-Type: application/json’
–data-raw ‘{“email”: “fifapik104@carsik.com”}’
{“data”:null,“error”:{“status”:401,“name”:“UnauthorizedError”,“message”:“Missing or invalid credentials”,“details”:{}}}

I get this:

{“data”:null,“error”:{“status”:401,“name”:“UnauthorizedError”,“message”:“Missing or invalid credentials”,“details”:{}}}%

I appreciate your inputs

5

for start are you using strapi V3 (till 3.6.8) or V4 (4.0.0. and newer) ?

you need to use corresponding provider. What i wrote you up is for V4 as im using V4.
for V3 check docu

6

Worked perfectly for my configuration, thanks.

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