Sending email using luasocket smtp and ssl - email

Question

I have been trying to send an email using the code described in the post:
lua send mail with gmail account
The code by Michal Kottman is repeated below:
-- Michal Kottman, 2011, public domain
local socket = require 'socket'
local smtp = require 'socket.smtp'
local ssl = require 'ssl'
local https = require 'ssl.https'
local ltn12 = require 'ltn12'
function sslCreate()
local sock = socket.tcp()
return setmetatable({
connect = function(_, host, port)
local r, e = sock:connect(host, port)
if not r then return r, e end
sock = ssl.wrap(sock, {mode='client', protocol='tlsv1'})
return sock:dohandshake()
end
}, {
__index = function(t,n)
return function(_, ...)
return sock[n](sock, ...)
end
end
})
end
function sendMessage(subject, body)
local msg = {
headers = {
to = 'Your Target <target email>',
subject = subject
},
body = body
}
local ok, err = smtp.send {
from = '<your email>',
rcpt = '<target email>',
source = smtp.message(msg),
user = 'username',
password = 'password',
server = 'smtp.gmail.com',
port = 465,
create = sslCreate
}
if not ok then
print("Mail send failed", err) -- better error handling required
end
end
The code works good if I send something from gmail. But when I use godaddy smtp server which is smtpout.secureserver.net (same port) it fails to send the message. I just get error code 550.
Please can anyone help me figure out how to make this work.
Thanks.

Answer 1

It worked thanks to this post:
Trying to send email to Google through in Python, email being denied
I just changed the code to add the from field in the headers table like this:
-- Michal Kottman, 2011, public domain
local socket = require 'socket'
local smtp = require 'socket.smtp'
local ssl = require 'ssl'
local https = require 'ssl.https'
local ltn12 = require 'ltn12'
function sslCreate()
local sock = socket.tcp()
return setmetatable({
connect = function(_, host, port)
local r, e = sock:connect(host, port)
if not r then return r, e end
sock = ssl.wrap(sock, {mode='client', protocol='tlsv1'})
return sock:dohandshake()
end
}, {
__index = function(t,n)
return function(_, ...)
return sock[n](sock, ...)
end
end
})
end
function sendMessage(subject, body)
local msg = {
headers = {
from = "<your email>",
to = 'Your Target <target email>',
subject = subject
},
body = body
}
local ok, err = smtp.send {
from = '<your email>',
rcpt = '<target email>',
source = smtp.message(msg),
user = 'username',
password = 'password',
server = 'smtp.gmail.com',
port = 465,
create = sslCreate
}
if not ok then
print("Mail send failed", err) -- better error handling required
end
end