I am sending a very straightforward email using Send grid in my node js project. But I get returned a 403 Forbidden error. The API Key has full access. The code is also correctly integrated, as I used another API Key from another account and it works perfectly.
Error log:
Any suggestions?
The error exists as the email address in the "from" field in the message(in your nodejs code,, to be sent using sendgrid) is not verified by sendgrid. Only put that email address in the "from" field which is explicitely verified by sendgrid.
To verify your sender email address to be able to send emails, refer to the link below:-
https://sendgrid.com/docs/ui/sending-email/sender-verification
Hope this helps.
(There could be further issues regarding domain name, read the link properly, they have a warning regarding use of gmail.com addresses, you can ignore that)
ResponseError: Forbidden
at node_modules/@sendgrid/client/src/classes/client.js:133:29
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5) {
code: 403,
response: {
headers: {
server: 'nginx',
date: 'Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:22:02 GMT',
'content-type': 'application/json',
'content-length': '281',
connection: 'close',
'access-control-allow-origin': 'https://sendgrid.api-docs.io',
'access-control-allow-methods': 'POST',
'access-control-allow-headers': 'Authorization, Content-Type, On-behalf-of, x-sg-elas-acl',
'access-control-max-age': '600',
'x-no-cors-reason': 'https://sendgrid.com/docs/Classroom/Basics/API/cors.html'
},
so meaning the from: address here
const msg = {
to: 'recepient@email.com',
from: 'sender@email.com', //this is the address that needs to be verified by sendgrid
subject: 'Sending from Sendgrid',
text: 'here is the test from node',
html: `<strong> Here is the order #${orderNumber} user: ${user} </strong>`,
}
Here is how to verify it https://sendgrid.com/docs/ui/sending-email/sender-verification/
See screenshot below:
Check whether from email address is used when you are verifying your send address.
I was having the same problem.
I discovered that the emails from of my application and the sender authentication of the SendGrid API need to be the same.
const sendMailHtml = async (subject, html) => {
try {
const msg = {
to: 'to@email.com',
from: {
email: "sample@hotmail.com"
},
subject: subject,
html: html,
}
await sendgrid.send(msg)
} catch (e) {
return e
}
}
sendgrid API email field
To fix this error you need go to perform SendGrid Sender Authentication for your sender email.
To do this, You need to login to your SendGrid Dashboard and visit Sender Authentication which is under the Settings dropdown.
There are 2 Types of Sender Authentication
1 Domain Authentication
IF you allow SendGrid to authenticate your domain e.g. webapp.com
THEN you will be able to successfully send an email with your SendGrid API KEY if the email from key matches the verified domain from: *@webapp.com
2 Single Sender Authentication
This is another option where you verify a single email e.g. person@email.com.
Which will then allow you to send out emails from: person@email.com via your SendGrid API KEY
In the latest release of sendgrid they have made the compulsion to verify the "Single Sender" i.e you as a single sender. So, to make it work the From field in your Sendgrid Send Email API should match the email you verified as a "single sender"
verify your single sender account where Sender Authentication/Single Sender Verification/ action column (three-dot)(send verify email- edit -delete menu)
[Tulio Faria] solved it by performing 'Single Sender Authentication' on his Sendgrid account.
I also had a similar issue not too long ago. What helped me fix this issue was to go to settings > API keys and then change the settings of the key I'm using to full-access.
