SMTP service is missing on windows 11

Hello,

I am testing nodemailer on my node.js localbased server and I keep getting SMTP related errors. All ports giving the same errors:

[2024-05-23 05:42:40] DEBUG Sending mail using SMTP/6.9.13[client:6.9.13]

[2024-05-23 05:42:42] DEBUG [DPbtBTaxh6U] Resolved localhost as ::1 [cache miss]

[2024-05-23 05:42:42] ERROR [DPbtBTaxh6U] connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:587

[2024-05-23 05:42:42] DEBUG [DPbtBTaxh6U] Closing connection to the server using "destroy"

[2024-05-23 05:42:42] ERROR Send Error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:587

Error sending email: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:587

at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1602:16) { 

errno: -4078,

code: 'ESOCKET',

syscall: 'connect',

address: '::1',

port: 587,

command: 'CONN'

}

I tried to ping the smtp ports on localmachine and no of them (25, 2525, 587, 465) are working.
I have checked the services.msc and could not find Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service at all.

I have a feeling that because of this service is missing, i cant send emails with nodemailer.

I am using https://mailtrap.io/ and its provided instructions how to use smtp.

var transport = nodemailer.createTransport({ 2 host: "sandbox.smtp.mailtrap.io", 3 port: 2525, 4 auth: { 5 user: "838e9be05a94db", 6 pass: "********c98c" 7 } 8});

Their smtp server is working fine. Just mine localmachine servers arent pinging.

Please help to solve this.