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Nodemailer: Greeting never received Nodemailer: Error: Greeting never received (code: 'ETIMEDOUT', command: 'CONN')

Email / SMTP · layer 2, Network

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Nodemailer: Greeting never received — Nodemailer: Error: Greeting never received (code: 'ETIMEDOUT', command: 'CONN') (Email / SMTP)Nodemailer:…Nodemailer: ETIMEDOUT / ECONNECTION — Nodemailer: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 142.250.27.108:465 (code: 'ETIMEDOUT', command: 'CONN') (Email / SMTP)Nodemailer: ETIMEDO…Nodemailer: EAUTH Invalid login — Nodemailer: Error: Invalid login: 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted (code: 'EAUTH', responseCode: 535) (Email / SMTP)Nodemailer: EAUTH I…self-signed certificate (SMTP TLS) — Nodemailer: Error: self signed certificate in certificate chain (code: 'ESOCKET') / unable to verify the first certificate (Email / SMTP)self-signed certifi…530 5.7.0 Authentication Required — SMTP: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first / 530 5.7.1 Authentication required (Email / SMTP)530 5.7.0 Authentic…421 4.7.0 Try again later (rate limited) — SMTP: 421 4.7.0 Our system has detected an unusual rate of unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. Mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily rate limited (Email / SMTP)421 4.7.0 Try again…450 4.7.1 Greylisted, please try again later — SMTP: 450 4.7.1 <user@example.com>: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted, see http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/example.com.html (Email / SMTP)450 4.7.1 Greyliste…SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER (SMTP port) — SMTP: [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number — SMTP over SSL on a STARTTLS port (Email / SMTP)SSL: WRONG_VERSION_…ConnectionRefusedError [Errno 111] (SMTP) — Python: ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused — smtplib connect to localhost:25 (Email / SMTP)ConnectionRefusedEr…Laravel: Connection could not be established with host — Laravel: Symfony\Component\Mailer\Exception\TransportException: Connection could not be established with host "smtp.mailtrap.io:2525": stream_socket_client(): Unable to connect (Email / SMTP)Laravel: Connection…Outbound port 25 blocked — SMTP: telnet smtp.example.com 25 — Connection timed out (cloud provider blocks port 25) (Email / SMTP)Outbound port 25 bl…534 5.7.9 Application-specific password required — SMTP: 534-5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 (Email / SMTP)534 5.7.9 Applicati…535 5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted — SMTP: 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials (Email / SMTP)535 5.7.8 Username …SmtpClientAuthentication is disabled for the Tenant — SMTP: 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, basic authentication is disabled / SmtpClientAuthentication is disabled for the Tenant (Email / SMTP)SmtpClientAuthentic…NOAUTH — ReplyError: NOAUTH Authentication required. (Node.js)NOAUTHToo many authentication failures — Received disconnect: Too many authentication failures (Linux)Too many authentica…Authentication token manipulation error — passwd: Authentication token manipulation error (Linux)Authentication toke…SMTP Error: Could not authenticate — WordPress / PHPMailer: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate / SMTP connect() failed (WordPress)SMTP Error: Could n…550 5.7.1 — 550 5.7.1 Relaying denied / Message rejected as spam / Unauthenticated email not accepted (Email / SMTP)550 5.7.1550 5.7.26 — 550 5.7.26 This mail has been blocked because the sender is unauthenticated (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) (Email / SMTP)550 5.7.26451 4.3.0 Local error in processing — SMTP: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error / 451 Requested action aborted: local error in processing (Email / SMTP)451 4.3.0 Local err…452 4.2.2 Mailbox full / over quota — SMTP: 452 4.2.2 The email account that you tried to reach is over quota (Email / SMTP)452 4.2.2 Mailbox f…452 4.5.3 Too many recipients — SMTP: 452 4.5.3 Your message has too many recipients / 452 Too many recipients received this hour (Email / SMTP)452 4.5.3 Too many …SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed — Python: smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed (Email / SMTP)SMTPServerDisconnec…PHPMailer: SMTP connect() failed — PHPMailer: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Failed to connect to server (SMTP connect() failed) (Email / SMTP)PHPMailer: SMTP con…SSL routines: wrong version number — OpenSSL: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number (SSL / TLS)SSL routines: wrong…

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Nodemailer: ETIMEDOUT / ECONNECTIONEmail / SMTP

Nodemailer: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 142.250.27.108:465 (code: 'ETIMEDOUT', command: 'CONN')

Nodemailer could not open a connection to the SMTP server before the timeout — a blocked port, wrong host, or network issue.

Nodemailer: EAUTH Invalid loginEmail / SMTP

Nodemailer: Error: Invalid login: 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted (code: 'EAUTH', responseCode: 535)

The SMTP server rejected the credentials passed to Nodemailer.

self-signed certificate (SMTP TLS)Email / SMTP

Nodemailer: Error: self signed certificate in certificate chain (code: 'ESOCKET') / unable to verify the first certificate

Nodemailer refused the SMTP server's TLS certificate because it is self-signed, expired, hostname-mismatched or missing its inter…

530 5.7.0 Authentication RequiredEmail / SMTP

SMTP: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first / 530 5.7.1 Authentication required

The server will not accept mail until you encrypt the connection (STARTTLS) and/or authenticate, and your client did neither.

421 4.7.0 Try again later (rate limited)Email / SMTP

SMTP: 421 4.7.0 Our system has detected an unusual rate of unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. Mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily rate limited

The receiving server (often Gmail or Outlook) is temporarily throttling your mail because the volume or reputation of your sendin…

450 4.7.1 Greylisted, please try again laterEmail / SMTP

SMTP: 450 4.7.1 <user@example.com>: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted, see http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/example.com.html

The recipient server deliberately rejected the first delivery attempt from an unknown sender (greylisting) and expects a legitima…

SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER (SMTP port)Email / SMTP

SMTP: [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number — SMTP over SSL on a STARTTLS port

Your client tried to start TLS immediately on a port where the server speaks plain SMTP first (or the reverse), so the handshake…

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ConnectionRefusedError [Errno 111] (SMTP)Email / SMTP

Python: ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused — smtplib connect to localhost:25

Nothing is listening on the SMTP host and port your script connected to — often `localhost:25` because no host was given and no l…

Laravel: Connection could not be established with hostEmail / SMTP

Laravel: Symfony\Component\Mailer\Exception\TransportException: Connection could not be established with host "smtp.mailtrap.io:2525": stream_socket_client(): Unable to connect

Laravel's mailer could not connect to the SMTP host configured in `.env`.

Outbound port 25 blockedEmail / SMTP

SMTP: telnet smtp.example.com 25 — Connection timed out (cloud provider blocks port 25)

Connections from your server to other mail servers on port 25 time out because your cloud host or ISP blocks outbound SMTP to fig…

534 5.7.9 Application-specific password requiredEmail / SMTP

SMTP: 534-5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833

The Google account has 2-Step Verification on, so SMTP clients cannot use the normal password; they need an app password (or OAut…

535 5.7.8 Username and Password not acceptedEmail / SMTP

SMTP: 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials

The server received your login but rejected it — wrong username or password, an unusable password type, or a blocked sign-in.

SmtpClientAuthentication is disabled for the TenantEmail / SMTP

SMTP: 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, basic authentication is disabled / SmtpClientAuthentication is disabled for the Tenant

Microsoft 365 turned off password-based SMTP AUTH for your mailbox or tenant; your client must use OAuth or the setting must be r…

NOAUTHNode.js

ReplyError: NOAUTH Authentication required.

The Redis server requires a password (or ACL user) but the client didn’t authenticate.

Too many authentication failuresLinux

Received disconnect: Too many authentication failures

Your SSH agent offered too many keys before the right one, and the server cut the connection (MaxAuthTries, default 6).

Authentication token manipulation errorLinux

passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

passwd couldn’t update the password — the root filesystem is read-only, /etc/shadow has wrong permissions/attributes, or a PAM ru…

SMTP Error: Could not authenticateWordPress

WordPress / PHPMailer: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate / SMTP connect() failed

The SMTP server rejected the login or couldn’t be reached — wrong credentials, app passwords required, wrong port/encryption, or…

550 5.7.1Email / SMTP

550 5.7.1 Relaying denied / Message rejected as spam / Unauthenticated email not accepted

The receiving (or your outgoing) mail server refused the message — relaying isn’t allowed, the sender isn’t authenticated, or it…

550 5.7.26Email / SMTP

550 5.7.26 This mail has been blocked because the sender is unauthenticated (SPF/DKIM/DMARC)

Gmail/Outlook rejected the message because SPF and DKIM didn’t pass for the sender’s domain (DMARC failure).

451 4.3.0 Local error in processingEmail / SMTP

SMTP: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error / 451 Requested action aborted: local error in processing

The server hit an internal problem (disk, database, content filter, DNS) while handling your message and asked you to retry later.

452 4.2.2 Mailbox full / over quotaEmail / SMTP

SMTP: 452 4.2.2 The email account that you tried to reach is over quota

The recipient's mailbox has exceeded its storage quota, so the server will not accept new mail for now.

452 4.5.3 Too many recipientsEmail / SMTP

SMTP: 452 4.5.3 Your message has too many recipients / 452 Too many recipients received this hour

The server limits how many recipients a single message or sender may have; yours exceeded it.

SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closedEmail / SMTP

Python: smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed

The server closed the connection before your script finished the SMTP conversation — a timeout, blocked IP, TLS mismatch or rate…

PHPMailer: SMTP connect() failedEmail / SMTP

PHPMailer: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Failed to connect to server (SMTP connect() failed)

PHPMailer could not open a socket to the SMTP server — wrong host/port/encryption, a blocked port, or a PHP/OpenSSL restriction.

SSL routines: wrong version numberSSL / TLS

OpenSSL: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

The peer did not answer with a TLS record — you spoke TLS to a plain HTTP/SMTP port (or the reverse), or a proxy intervened.