By amshah11
my application is running on digitalocean. i am sending emails using my gmail address. however email delivery fails complaining about authentication exception or something. the same code works fine from localhost. password, smtp port, etc is configured correctly
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Sounds like a relay issue. Normally you would not want email sent from a non-local address to be relayed so your mail server is probably just doing the right thing and rejecting it. You’ll have to whitelist the host/IP address that you are trying to send from in your mailserver ACLs.
Without info on what software you’re using and where things are, I can’t be more specific.
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