Postinstall problems 6.4.5

[mdevDE]

Hi there,
when using version 6.4.4 the post installation works fine.

However, updating to version 6.4.5 will show the following error:

• npm ERR! nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall: node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"
• npm ERR! Failed at the nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall script

Thanks in advance

[ficzusistvan]

Same situation for me.

[andris9]

Can not reproduce. Could you try figuring out why this happens (maybe some system specific requirements) and propose a fix?

[mdevDE]

Hi andris9,

I am no expert, however, this is what the error log says. Maybe this is of any help

100 verbose stack Error: nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall: node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"
100 verbose stack spawn ENOENT
100 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/opt/plesk/node/12/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:48:18)
100 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13)
100 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
100 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:283:5)
101 verbose pkgid nodemailer@6.4.5
102 verbose cwd /var/www/vhosts/hosting107605.a2f15.netcup.net/srv.huwaldroether.de/dist
103 verbose Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.9-amd64
104 verbose argv "/opt/plesk/node/12/bin/node" "/opt/plesk/node/12/bin/npm" "install"
105 verbose node v12.4.0
106 verbose npm v6.9.0
107 error file sh
108 error code ELIFECYCLE
109 error errno ENOENT
110 error syscall spawn
111 error nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall: node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"
111 error spawn ENOENT
112 error Failed at the nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall script.

The strange thing is that versions 6.4.0 - 6.4.4 worked just fine.

[andris9]

It seems that node binary is not available in default path

[jakeleventhal]

furthermore, there are no release notes for 6.4.5

[ybatsiun]

I faced the same issue

[JaffaKetchup]

Hi andris9,

I am no expert, however, this is what the error log says. Maybe this is of any help

100 verbose stack Error: nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall: node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"
100 verbose stack spawn ENOENT
100 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/opt/plesk/node/12/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:48:18)
100 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13)
100 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
100 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:283:5)
101 verbose pkgid nodemailer@6.4.5
102 verbose cwd /var/www/vhosts/hosting107605.a2f15.netcup.net/srv.huwaldroether.de/dist
103 verbose Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.9-amd64
104 verbose argv "/opt/plesk/node/12/bin/node" "/opt/plesk/node/12/bin/npm" "install"
105 verbose node v12.4.0
106 verbose npm v6.9.0
107 error file sh
108 error code ELIFECYCLE
109 error errno ENOENT
110 error syscall spawn
111 error nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall: node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"
111 error spawn ENOENT
112 error Failed at the nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall script.

The strange thing is that versions 6.4.0 - 6.4.4 worked just fine.

Yep. I installed 6.4.4 without an issue. Thanks!

[cchretien]

Not sure if this helps but I was hitting a similar issue due to the introduction of that postinstall script. After digging a little more, I found it was because I was building with an Alpine image and I use root inside the container to install my packages.
linuxserver/docker-baseimage-alpine#47
I set ENV npm_config_unsafe_perm=true in my Dockerfile to workaround

[andris9]

Make sure that node binary is available in default path or disable scripts: npm install --ignore-scripts

[brunamagrinidacruz]

Same problem here doing npm install nodemailer. Installed npm install nodemailer@6.4.4 and worked it.

[JaffaKetchup]

I think this issue is not resolved and should be reopened.

Why does 6.4.5 exist if there are no release notes (thanks to @jakeleventhal)? Why does 6.4.4 work perfectly without error? This shouldn't be ignored considering how big this project is, and how many of us are clearly struggling with this issue.
I hope my reasons are clear, and to anybody looking for help, install 6.4.4, but we can't just ignore this issue.

Thanks,
Luka S.

[andris9]

Even though this project may seem big, it is not a community project but my personal project that I have been building from my spare time for the last 10 years. CHANGELOG does not include every released version mostly because I haven't been always consistent and ofter forget to add an entry.

Post-install script does not work if node binary is not available from global $PATH. There are multiple solutions to overcome this:

• Make sure that node binary is available from global $PATH (preferred solution)
• Fork Nodemailer and remove post-install script from package.json
• I have a sponsorship tier in Github that once reached, also removes the post-install script
• Do not run npm scripts when installing modules (npm install --ignore-scripts)
• Use an alternative module like emailjs that does not have such post-install script.

[inceabdullah]

Hi andris9,

I am no expert, however, this is what the error log says. Maybe this is of any help

100 verbose stack Error: nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall: node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"
100 verbose stack spawn ENOENT
100 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/opt/plesk/node/12/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:48:18)
100 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13)
100 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
100 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:283:5)
101 verbose pkgid nodemailer@6.4.5
102 verbose cwd /var/www/vhosts/hosting107605.a2f15.netcup.net/srv.huwaldroether.de/dist
103 verbose Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.9-amd64
104 verbose argv "/opt/plesk/node/12/bin/node" "/opt/plesk/node/12/bin/npm" "install"
105 verbose node v12.4.0
106 verbose npm v6.9.0
107 error file sh
108 error code ELIFECYCLE
109 error errno ENOENT
110 error syscall spawn
111 error nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall: node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"
111 error spawn ENOENT
112 error Failed at the nodemailer@6.4.5 postinstall script.

The strange thing is that versions 6.4.0 - 6.4.4 worked just fine.

Thank you I have got that error with npm i nodemailer but not: npm i nodemailer@6.4.4