Question
Outgoing connections on port 25 / 587 / 143 blocked over IPv6?
- Posted on September 13, 2014
Asked by Stephan Herbers
I just moved my servers, including my mailserver to the new ams3 region because of ipv6. i configured postfix to use ipv6 and i recieved my first email over ipv6 without a problem.
But when i try to send mail over ipv6 to other mailserver that support ipv6 like gmail.com the connection times out.
I then used netcat to test it and found that three mail relevant ports seem to be blocked for outgoing connections. SSH works fine.
nc -vz [ipv6-address] 25
nc: connect to [ipv6-address] port 25 (tcp) failed: Connection timed out
nc -vz [ipv6-address] 587
nc: connect to [ipv6-address] port 587 (tcp) failed: Connection timed out
nc -vz [ipv6-address] 143
nc: connect to [ipv6-address] port 143 (tcp) failed: Connection timed out
nc -vz [ipv6-address] 22
Connection to [ipv6-address] 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded
Are these ports really blocked? If yes, why?
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Hi there; I was in touch with support about this a few months back and I didn’t realise it was still blocked.
The response was:
Or, to put it another way:
Backup!
make the appropriate lines look like this
Reboot, test, enjoy, let me know if it works :)
Just checked if this is still the case in 07/2016 and it unfortunately is: Outgoing connections are blocked on the following ports: 25/tcp filtered smtp 109/tcp filtered pop2 110/tcp filtered pop3 143/tcp filtered imap 465/tcp filtered smtps 587/tcp filtered submission 933/tcp filtered unknown 995/tcp filtered pop3s
I’m in the FRA1 (Frankfurt) Datacenter. I hope this gets changed sometime soon. Other than this I’m really happy with DO but their IPv6 support really sucks big time (the no real v6 subnet and only 16IPs thing being the other big v6 problem).
Hi everyone! I’m sorry to read about all of the headaches this has caused for your email environments. At this time, all SMTP traffic over IPv6 is indeed blocked for all DigitalOcean accounts. This limitation is disclosed on our IPv6 documentation here: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/ipv6/#limits
Additionally, while SMTP traffic over IPv4 is possible for most accounts we do not recommend sending mail from Droplets: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/#limits