I am completely new in AWS and I want to know about port 25 to send SMTP mail.
My organisation is using one SMTP relay server which is having only one port 25, no any other port is available.
I have an application (written in flask) which i will deploy on AWS and will use it to send SMTP mail using my organisation's server to outlook.
Now, i want to know whether port 25 is blocked or not and can it be used in this scenario or not.
Thanks in advance.
This is blocked on purpose by Amazon.
If the email provider supports another port you're advised to use this, however it seems for your use case you're limited.
In this case you will need to follow the instructions that are available on the How do I remove the restriction on port 25 from my EC2 instance? page. This will require you to fill in this form specifying your business case for why it needs to be unblocked.
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I have installed zimbra on GCP VM. Im able to received mail from outer and inner network but unable to send mail in outer network. I have change smtp port to 2525 and define firewall but still not able to send mail.
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madhur
For security reasons Google blocks SMTP traffic and that is why you can't send email:
By default, Compute Engine allows outbound connections on all ports
but port 25, which is blocked because of the risk of abuse. All other
ports are open, including ports 587 and 465.
See also the documentation what kind of traffic gets always blocked by default in GCP (and you can't change it).
The only way to semd emails from you GCP instances is to use trusted 3rd party tools such as: SendGrid, Mailgun, or Mailjet.
Have a look at the documentation on how to send emails from GCP VM's, which provider is best suited for you and how to configure specific service.
I am trying to set up my own Email server on EC2 instance, but facing issue related reverse DNS and SMTP port 25:
Incoming Mail (SMTP/postfix) is running but is not publicly accessible at X.X.X.X:25.
Outbound mail (SMTP port 25) seems to be blocked by your network. You will not be able to send any mail. Many residential networks block port 25 to prevent hijacked machines from being able to send spam. A quick connection test to Google's mail server on port 25 failed.
Your box's reverse DNS is currently ec2-x-x-x-x.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com, but it should be mail.xyz.com. Your ISP or cloud provider will have instructions on setting up reverse DNS for your box.
By googling I found Request to remove email sending limitations link, I requested by this form to AWS, but didn't getting any solution.
Please guide me on this.
I have an application that is hosted on a GCP machine.
This application is supposed to send a mail via AWS SES service.
From what I've seen in GCP documentation, all default SMTP ports are blocked in GCP machines.
is it possible to unblock one of the ports or use another port for sending the mail?
Thank you,
Maya
Use 2587 port instead of 587. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/smtp-connect.html#smtp-connect-starttls
Look amazon SES on Google Cloud Computing instance VM using postfix
Port 2525 is unblocked and all major vendors provide support for the 2525 smtp port.
Im trying to setup a postfix SMTP mail server on my amazon ec2 instance. i followed this guide http://cybart.com/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-on-amazon-ec2/ and many other ones on configuring the main.cf
everytime i try to telnet my mail server mail.domain.com smtp it trys to connect to address XXX.XXX.XXX.XX but then operation is timed out and im unable to connect to remote host.
If you're still looking for guidance on how to setup an email server using Amazon EC2, I've written a guide for it. Even though some find using ec2 for email to be a hassle it doesn't have to be for you.
https://avix.co/blog/server-hosting
Here are some details about what the configuration will give you;
The system uses:
-Postfix as the smtp agent
-Dovecot as the client-side connect and mailbox manager
-Postgresql database to handle mail users, mail transports and the Spamassassin database
-Amavis (w/ Clamav & Spamassassin) for protection against viruses sent through email, and to facilitate an adaptive spam detection system that learns and corrects its behavior for each individual user
-Spamassassin as the spam filter and bayes to learn spam from ham and ham from spam
-Apache as the web setup, enables http & https connections to your site
-Squirrelmail as the default webmail. After the server is setup you will be able to check your email on yourdomain.com/mail from any browser on any device
The system supports:
-Multiple transports for different domain
Good luck, and let me know if I can clarify anything.
Are there any limits on the number of emails I can send from an EC2 instances when I am using a third party SMTP server to send out emails ? I use the EC2 instance to call the client's smtp server.
Thanks
Santhosh
Yes, if you are connecting to the third-party server over TCP port 25, there is a limit imposed by the EC2 infrastructure, as an anti-spam measure.
You can request that this restriction be lifted, or, the simplest and arguably most correct solution, connect to the server on port 587 (SMTP-MSA) instead of 25 (SMTP-MTA). (The third party mail server should support it unless they really haven't been paying attention for several years.)
See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol
Or, using SSL would be even better.
If you aren't connecting to the 3rd party server on port 25, then there's absolutely no limit.
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/contactus/ec2-email-limit-rdns-request ... is the form you can use if you want to request removal of the port 25 block, but this also requires you to establish reverse dns to take additional responsibility for the removed restriction on port 25, if you want to take that route, instead.