email node missing after upgrade to 1.4.16

[Robert Macklin]

I just applied the 1.4.16 update to a Conduit AP. The Node-RED environment is missing the two email nodes. I tried to install it using:

npm install node-red-node-email

and received a number of warnings:

admin@mtcap:~# cd /opt/node-red
admin@mtcap:/opt/node-red# npm uninstall node-red-node-email
unbuild node-red-node-email@0.1.29
admin@mtcap:/opt/node-red# npm install node-red-node-email
npm WARN deprecated mailparser@0.6.2: This project is unmaintained
npm WARN deprecated nodemailer@1.11.0: All versions below 4.0.1 of Nodemailer are deprecated. See https://nodemailer.com/status/
npm WARN deprecated mailcomposer@2.1.0: This project is unmaintained
npm WARN deprecated buildmail@2.0.0: This project is unmaintained
npm WARN deprecated mimelib@0.3.1: This project is unmaintained
npm WARN engine mime@1.6.0: wanted: {"node":">=4"} (current: {"node":"0.10.48","npm":"2.15.1"})
node-red-node-email@0.1.29 node_modules/node-red-node-email
├── poplib@0.1.7 (optimist@0.6.1)
├── mailparser@0.6.2 (mime@1.6.0, uue@3.1.2, mimelib@0.3.1, encoding@0.1.12)
├── imap@0.8.19 (utf7@1.0.2, readable-stream@1.1.14)
└── nodemailer@1.11.0 (nodemailer-smtp-transport@1.1.0, nodemailer-direct-transport@1.1.0, libmime@1.2.0, needle@0.11.0, mailcomposer@2.1.0)
admin@mtcap:/opt/node-red#

I checked the node_modules directory and the node-red-node-email folder is present. When I run Node-RED and check under “Manage palette” it shows there as well, but the two nodes are not present in the sidebar and my flow reports a missing node error when it loads.

[Jason Reiss]

Looking in /var/log/app/node-red.log I see

/opt/node-red/node_modules/node-red-node-email/node_modules/mailparser/node_modules/uue/uue.js:184
   matches.forEach(nextMatch => {
                              ^
29 Mar 16:40:49 - [warn] ------------------------------------------------------
29 Mar 16:40:49 - [warn] [email] SyntaxError: Unexpected token >

This looks to be a node.js incompatibility with the versions being installed.

[Robert Macklin]

I just found that as well. I checked another Conduit I have with the older firmware. It uses version 0.1.24 of the email node. I removed the latest 0.1.29 and installed the older version and the node shows in the sidebar.

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