Can't send email in droplet with nginx server

Posted October 15, 2019
DigitalOcean Accounts Nginx

I have a contact form in node js application when user submit a form the email will send to Gmail account.i’m using nodemailer to send emails from this application. this is working completely fine in localhost, but in the live server the does not send and I never see any error message.

I’m using droplet with nginx server

Please help me to find the solution

Rusaid MRD

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Bjorn van den Akker • October 15, 2019

Since a long while, DO is blocking port 25 for email traffic. This, so email servers can’t use your VM as a direct mail relay. You can use port 587 & 465 for mailservers as well.

If this isn’t the case, please post some more information like;