Error: Message failed: 553 Relaying disallowed as @ . - NodeMail Zoho

Question

After searching for more than 6 hours trying to understand what is zoho's mail problem to send emails! After i read lots of their answer with no helpful solution, i found the solution is that you need to have the sender option in your NodeMailer option same like email with same sender name and sender email. like this : from: '"senderNameSameLikeTheZohoOne<emailname@yourwebsite.com>',

my config :

const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
        service:'Zoho',
        host: 'smtp.zoho.com',
        port: 465,
        secure: true, // use SSL
        auth: {
          user: `${process.env.EMAIL_ADDRESS}`,
          pass: `${process.env.EMAIL_PASSWORD}`
        },
      });
    
      const mailOptions = {
        from: '"senderNameSameLikeTheZohoOne" <emailname@yourwebsite.com>',
        to: `${user.email}`,
        subject: '',
        text:''
         ,
      };

transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, (err, response) => {
        if (err) {
          console.error('there was an error: ', err);
          res.status(401).json(err);
        } else {
          // console.log('here is the res: ', response);
          res.status(200).json('recovery email sent');
        }
      });

hopefully it helps someone

It needs a `from` on the email i.e `from: '"senderNameSameLikeTheZohoOne'` — Edwinner, May 05 '20 at 21:41
Thank you so much, this helped a lot. Silly of me, how could I forget! +1 — Raghav Herugu, May 19 '20 at 22:46
Thanks so much, Mr.heshamelmasry99 for sharing useful information. I also struggle to get understanding why it's working with gmail but not with zoho. It helps me a lot thanks for sharing with us. — syam vakkalanka, Apr 26 '21 at 10:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '21 at 21:27

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This helped me a lot. And to be more specific,

The cause of my error was that the emailname@yourwebsite.com was missing from "from: '"senderNameSameLikeTheZohoOne" emailname@yourwebsite.com'". Immediately I added it, it worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for the clarification

answered Jun 29 '21 at 21:27

godofjs

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'"senderNameSameLikeTheZohoOne' I meant – godofjs Jun 29 '21 at 21:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '22 at 09:06

I spent full night on this ! In my case the email was successfully sent using this command

echo "test-body" | mailx -r senderEamil@tld.com -s "test-subject" reciverEmail@tld.com

But this was not working

echo "test-body" | mailx -s "test-subject" reciverEmail@tld.com

So found that my website is using the host VM user name where it wasn't the same of the sender email smtp config in my postfix

I had two solution

To explictily set a sender username to the postfix check this
Add a user name similar to the sender email at your VM

Error: Message failed: 553 Relaying disallowed as @ . - NodeMail Zoho

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