Question
Send email using gmail smtp
- Posted on October 11, 2019
- EmailDigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls
Asked by ecell100
I’ve followed the tutorial here : https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/
I’ve tried using port 465 however I had an error so as I use tls I have changed the port to 587, I think 587 is for tls?
I’m getting the following error:
Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command. Error: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. a7sm12831008wra.43 - gsmtp
I’m trying to send email from Expressionengine, I have the following email settings:
$config['email_newline'] = "\r\n";
$config['email_crlf'] = "\r\n";
$config['smtp_crypto'] = 'tls';
Inbound Rules
Custom TCP 25 All IPv4 All IPv6 More
HTTP TCP 80 All IPv4 All IPv6 More
HTTPS TCP 443 All IPv4 All IPv6 More
Custom TCP 587 All IPv4 All IPv6 More
Outbound Rules
ICMP ICMP All IPv4 All IPv6 More
All TCP TCP All ports All IPv4 All IPv6 More
Custom TCP 587 All IPv4 All IPv6 More
All UDP UDP All ports All IPv4 All IPv6 More
Any ideas?
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I would assume that you can connect on port 25 as well. It seems that nothing is wrong with the connection itself.
Another thing to add is to enable IMAP from your Gmail account. Login to Gmail and click the gear icon on your top right side of the page, then click Settings --> Forwarding and POP/IMAP --> IMAP access --> Click Enable --> Save Changes
May I ask what was the exact error on port 465? Make sure this port is open for Outbound TCP as well.
I changed the host to ‘ssl://smtp.gmail.com’ port 465 and it works now!
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