535 AUTH failed about spring-security-registration

[lor6]

Hey @mrcleanandfresh It's usually better to create a new issue, since this is one is closed.

To your problem, if you look in the codebase, the email properties are provided in the application.properties file so Spring Boot can pick them up automatically, and they are of the form spring.mail.host, spring.mail.port and so on. Can you try replacing those values with your own and let me know if it works?

Also let me know why you think you should have an email.properties file with the properties you listed so we can correct that.

Cheers,
Loredana

[eugenp]

Well, @CoolR7 - that's not going to be possible. SMTP credentials are naturally user-specific, so I can't commit my own Gmail credentials here :)
What I would say is - Gmail is just one option - there are many available email solutions out there, all providing simple SMTP credentials. So - you might want to have a look at Amazon SES for example, or SendGrid.

Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Eugen.

[mrcleanandfresh]

I get this same error using the FakeSMTP (fakeSMTP-2.1-SNAPSHOT.jar) server on a fresh clone: 02-24-2018. Everything else works awesomely, I just can't go through the flow of using the verification token. Here's the stack trace I am getting after the RegistrationListener#confirmRegistration() method fires:

o.s.m.MailAuthenticationException: Authentication failed; nested exception is javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException: 535 AUTH failed

at o.s.m.j.JavaMailSenderImpl.doSend(JavaMailSenderImpl.java:424)
at o.s.m.j.JavaMailSenderImpl.send(JavaMailSenderImpl.java:307)
at o.s.m.j.JavaMailSenderImpl.send(JavaMailSenderImpl.java:296)
at o.b.r.l.RegistrationListener.confirmRegistration(RegistrationListener.java:43)
at o.b.r.l.RegistrationListener.onApplicationEvent(RegistrationListener.java:34)
... 89 frames truncated

Caused by: j.m.AuthenticationFailedException: 535 AUTH failed

at c.s.m.s.SMTPTransport$Authenticator.authenticate(SMTPTransport.java:932)
at c.s.m.s.SMTPTransport.authenticate(SMTPTransport.java:843)
at c.s.m.s.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:748)
at j.m.Service.connect(Service.java:366)
at o.s.m.j.JavaMailSenderImpl.connectTransport(JavaMailSenderImpl.java:501)
... 1 frames truncated
... 93 common frames omitted

email.properties:

smtp.host=localhost
smtp.port=2525
smtp.protocol=smtp
smtp.username=test
smtp.password=test

I'm running the FakeSMTP server on port 2525.

I was also getting this same error with SES, and my domain's SMTP email. So I used FakeSMTP to check to troubleshoot further. I'm almost certain it's something I am doing wrong, since I went through this tutorial to learn about how to register users and manage them. Any help would be appreciated.

[mrcleanandfresh]

Thanks @lor6, my apologies, I thought since it was the same issue it would have been redundant. I changed the properties in application.properties and it worked! Thanks. I had thought it was weird that in troubleshooting using Google that spring mail was listed like spring.mail.host, etc and the email.properties file wasn't.

Anyway, there are two files called email.properties.sample and email.properties.sample.localhost and in them it says to rename them from .sample to email.properties. Here's the comment in the localhost one:

################### JavaMail Configuration ##########################
# To setup a local smtp server for testing, do the following:
#
# Rename this file to email.properties
# Download FakeSMTP
# git clone https://github.com/Nilhcem/FakeSMTP
# cd FakeSMTP
# mvn compile package
# Start the fakeSMTP server on port 2525
# java -jar target/fakeSMTP-*.jar