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node-red-node-email unhelpful connect error
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Description
Which node are you reporting an issue on?
node-red-node-email 2.2.1
What are the steps to reproduce?
Connect to IMAP server, SSL port 993 basic authentication.
What happens?
This used to work fine and now it only gives me "connect error". The error object says this unhelpful thing:
{"error":{"message":"","source":{"id":"c0d86f58da60f25e","type":"e-mail in","name":"Post email","count":1}},"_msgid":"3aeeab65094bc76b"}
What do you expect to happen?
Get email out as it used to work.
Please tell us about your environment:
- Node-RED version: 3.1.9
- node.js version: 20.10.0
- npm version: 10.2.3
- Platform/OS: Fedora
- Browser: Firefox
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the IMAP connection failure in node-red-node-email 2.2.1 using an SSL port 993 server and basic authentication. Trace where the e-mail in node turns the connection failure into the reported empty error message. Done means the node reports useful connection details while preserving successful email retrieval, with the reproduction environment documented for verification.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, node.js
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100