# Sending emails from Node Red
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-from-node-red/63624
**Category:** General
**Created:** [8 June 2022 14:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-from-node-red/63624 "2022-06-08T14:28:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@chapeco6](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/chapeco6)
#### Post date: [8 June 2022 14:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-from-node-red/63624/1 "2022-06-08T14:28:21Z")
Hi! Im trying to send an email from Node Red and it shows this error in the output.
This is how I configured de Email node:
I already watch some videos on youtube and did everything exactly the same as the video but it just doesnt work.
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [8 June 2022 14:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-from-node-red/63624/2 "2022-06-08T14:29:52Z")
Have you tried doing a forum search using 'email gmail'? This issue comes up perodically.
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### Author:  [@chapeco6](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/chapeco6)
#### Post date: [8 June 2022 14:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-from-node-red/63624/3 "2022-06-08T14:30:40Z")
okay I will do that
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [8 June 2022 14:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-from-node-red/63624/4 "2022-06-08T14:31:34Z")
The answer is: Turn on 2 factor authentication in gmail then it gives you the ability to add app passwords.
See this thread: [Gmail "Email-in" node no longer working with username&password - #5 by jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/gmail-email-in-node-no-longer-working-with-username-password/60683/5)
> [@Gmail "Email-in" node no longer working with username&password](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/gmail-email-in-node-no-longer-working-with-username-password/60683/5):
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> In order to continue using gmail from Node-red, **you have to set up an app password**.
> In order to set up an app password **you have to turn on 2 factor authentication** [as described here](https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-turn-on-gmail-two-factor-authentication-4707927)
> You do need to authenticate with 2FA when you login to create an app pasword [see here](https://www.lifewire.com/get-a-password-to-access-gmail-by-pop-imap-2-1171882) **but the app password bypasses 2FA.**
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### Author:  [@LosinIt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/LosinIt)
#### Post date: [8 June 2022 19:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-from-node-red/63624/5 "2022-06-08T19:03:30Z")
> [@Steve-Mcl](#):
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> See this thread:
Thanks so much! I'd missed that post, or maybe ignored it because I didn't truly understand until yesterday when I could no longer send email.
Here's the unexpected thing, I used the app-specific p/w for postfix on one of my systems and that enabled postfix to work on ALL my systems! They must be associating the app-specific p/w with public IP address. All my systems are NATed so all use the same public IP. I have to assume at this point that the same is true for anything I have that uses [smtp.gmail.com](http://smtp.gmail.com).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [7 August 2022 19:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-from-node-red/63624/6 "2022-08-07T19:04:00Z")
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