So, I’ve had issues before with my jury rigged Macports-powered MAMP setup. The biggest time suck has been postfix/sendmail issues, like I experience for 2–3 hours today.
mail() function and SwiftMailer both seemed to be sending things correctly (returning true and such)postfix was runningoperation has timed outin the error log when trying to connect to SMTP servers (try:
tail -f /var/log/mail.log to see it real time)telnet ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 25What the EFF, right?
Then I start thinking. I can’t get out on port 25, maybe it’s the router. After resetting the password and all settings (I’m a moron, I forgot the user/pass I setup), and re-configuring everything (I use a custom subnet at home to let me VPN special places), I found no option for this in the FiOS Actiontec router admin software.
Yep. That had to be it. I called their support line and confirmed it. My residential account had port 25 blocked and according to a few message boards, business accounts with dedicated IP’s were being blocked as well.
How’d I get around it? I found this article on relaying mail through Google SMTP with postfix on Snow Leopard and it saved my life.
I don’t have a lot of time to describe everything, but just follow life-saving article
Thanks, Jules. You literally saved me hundreds to even thousands of dollars in time/energy.
Now everyone, say thanks to Jules…
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Ryan says…
Verizon changed their outbound SMTP port from the default 25 to 587 a few months ago I believe. I host my own email from a server in my house and, after authenticating myself as a verizon customer of course, I can send email using my own box as the SMTP.
I used to do it when I had comcast and feared fios would be the same way, but everything’s fine so far.