I am hoping someone can assist me with an SMTP issue.
I am looking at moving my website to a hosting site as it is currently hosted on site. I migrated my site to the hosting company to test it but I am having issues with the SMTP setup. I simply want to use it as an SMTP relay.
On the hosting site in Plesk control panel I created an email account called noreply@mydomain with a password. I then setup the SMTP settings using Basic Authentication and used the hosting provider's mail server as the SMTP server, enabled SSL as it uses port 465. Then so our emails won't get bounced I also setup a DKIM key in my DNS.
When I click on test SMTP though the test times out. To make sure it wasn't my site setup causing the problem I just installed a fresh DNN install on the site and it is doing the same.
Below is the error in DNN logs. Is anyone able to provide me with assistance for this.
AbsoluteURL:/API/PersonaBar/ServerSettingsSmtpHost/SendTestEmail DefaultDataProvider:DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke ExceptionGUID:8effe8e1-0a62-4d75-a3f1-3ee08537514c AssemblyVersion: PortalId:-1 UserId:-1 TabId:-1 RawUrl: Referrer: UserAgent: ExceptionHash:qa/JZIzpIonu3jWXl830Fbz8GEI= Message:The operation has timed out. StackTrace: at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message) at DotNetNuke.Services.Mail.CoreMailProvider.SendMail(MailInfo mailInfo, SmtpInfo smtpInfo) InnerMessage: InnerStackTrace: Source:System FileName: FileLineNumber:0 FileColumnNumber:0 Method: Server Name: WEB20
Michael TobischDNN★MVP
That's good you solved it. IANA reassigned port 465 to a different service. Some legacy systems still use it. The up-to-date SMTP port is 587, which supports TLS.
It sounds like you may want to look into using a more contemporary SMTP provider. If they're not using ports that support TLS, I'd run as fast as I could. Otherwise, who knows what other security things you may be living with, not knowing it. We love to use SendGrid, and sometimes Amazon SES.
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