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Blocked port 25 and Gmail

Posted on March 16, 2014

Hi All,

I have blocked out port 25. I can receive emails but when i send email from Gmail to my own email behind Postfix it will not deliver.

When i open port 25 again all gmail emails got delivered. Is there something i can do about that?



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Open a ticket, DigitalOcean blocks ports to your Droplet when there is abuse information on the IP.

No i have also create a other question about strange outgoing mails. <br>Im trying to block these… already went back to old situation. <br> <br>Mails working again, but stil my other problem is still open <br> <br>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/strange-outgoing-mail-postfix-centos

Have you configured POSTFIX to use Port 465 or 587 with gmail instead? <br> <br> <br>https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665018,1665144

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