Question
"cannot connect to smtp.gmail.com, port 587: Connection timed out"
- Posted July 25, 2017
- ApacheDigitalOceanDevelopmentPHPEmailUbuntu 16.04
Hi,
I tried this tutorial in order to enabling the email sending facility to the website which is on Droplets.
This worked fine in localhost and email sent/received very quickeley but it doesn’t work in Droplet.:(
This is the error message (when- tail /var/log/msmtp.log)
Jul 25 06:39:08 host=smtp.gmail.com tls=on auth=on user=aleem.firnas22gmail.com from=aleem.firnas22@gmail.com recipients=aleem.firnas22@gmail.com errormsg=‘cannot connect to smtp.gmail.com, port 587: Connection timed out’ exitcode=EX_TEMPFAIL
Please help me :(
Thanks.
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If your account with DigitalOcean is new, then all SMTP actions are blocked and you need to create a ticket with Support via the control panel and ask to un-block SMTP. This is to prevent SPAM.
Make sure you’re connecting with it over IPv4, not IPv6. It seems like DO is blocking IPv6 SMTP traffic.
And for what it’s worth, you can test by connecting with Gmail’s servers with the following:
$ telnet smtp.gmail.com 587
Then to test with IPv4:
$ telnet -4 smtp.gmail.com 587
If you see it trying to connect (and failing) with IPv6 with the former command, but succeeding with IPv4 in the latter command, you’ll need make your droplet use IPv4.
How did it work on localhost? What tutorial did you follow?
Hi , this is the tutorial link I followed, forget to put the link in question.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-gmail-or-yahoo-with-php-mail-function
Thanks