Related

Join the DigitalOcean Community Community

Join 1M+ other developers and:

  • Get help and share knowledge in Q&A
  • Subscribe to topics of interest
  • Get courses & tools that help you grow as a developer or small business owner
 Join Now
Emails from Iredmail are landing into SPAM folder Question Question
SMTP send mail connection timed out Question Question

Question

Wordpress droplet does not allow me to send SMTP e-mails

Posted June 17, 2017 3.8k views
EmailDigitalOcean

I am using a WP droplet and trying to configure my GMAIL SMTP account on it (I was intending to use the WP-Mail-SMTP plugin, but somehow this is not working (my browser freezes even when I am trying to send the e-mail test from the plugin platform).

Add a comment
marcosmilani
By:
marcosmilani

Related

Join the DigitalOcean Community Community

Join 1M+ other developers and:

  • Get help and share knowledge in Q&A
  • Subscribe to topics of interest
  • Get courses & tools that help you grow as a developer or small business owner
 Join Now
Emails from Iredmail are landing into SPAM folder Question Question
SMTP send mail connection timed out Question Question

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

×
Submit an Answer
3 answers
hansen June 17, 2017

Hi @marcosmilani

It might be because your DigitalOcean account is fairly new, which means that sometimes there’s a filter activated to block SMTP to avoid spam on the platform.
You need to contact Support via the control panel to get unblocked.

Another solution I would recommend that you have a look at SparkPost as an alternative way of sending mails via WordPress.
https://www.sparkpost.com
https://wordpress.org/plugins/sparkpost/

Reply Report
marcosmilani June 17, 2017

Thank you very much for the real quick reply. I’ve managed to contact support guys (which also replied really quickly) and the problem is now solved =)

Reply Report
NUCUTA June 20, 2017

Same problem, unfortunately my smtp port is still blocked even though I messaged them.

Reply Report

Related

Looking for something else?

Ask a new question Search for more help