SMS change might break security

[Gavin Perry]

In AEP 1.1.2 one of the changes was this:
Update Node-RED SMS node to use only HTTP instead of HTTPS to conserve memory.
When using Node-RED, I noticed that I can’t send e-mail using smtp.google.com (Gmail) as Google rejects the sender as insecure. Did you change to SMS affect SMTP too? Is there a way to get the Node-RED email sender to work (Got an insecure SMTP server we can use 🙂 ?)

[Jeff Hatch]

Gavin,

The change to the SMS node was for localhost-only traffic between the node and the SMS API interface on the Conduit. HTTPS consumes a lot of memory in nodejs.

As for the SMTP node, I’m not sure that it does TLS. That may be the issue. Either that or the auth is broken. Either way, it is the stock Node-RED SMTP node, and we haven’t touched it. I haven’t gotten it to work effectively with any “real” email server.

Jeff

[Jeff Hatch]

Gavin,

You could try the what Nick O’Leary recommended in the following thread:

https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/176998/error-on-sending-e-mail-by-using-e-mail-node-on-no.html

Jeff

[Brandon Bayer]

Gavin,

It sounds like you may need to allow insecure apps to access your account: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en

-Brandon

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