RE: Problem using gmail as mail server

[Simpson, Matt]

Upon further investigation, that's precisely what's going on.

Thanks for your help!

Matt Simpson

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Callum Macdonald
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 10:54 AM
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Subject: RE: Problem using gmail as mail server

In which case it is probably an issue outside of Monit. Maybe that port is 
blocked somewhere along the line. Or some other issue exists between the 
machine and google's smtp server. - C

On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 15:40 +0000, Simpson, Matt wrote:
> Forgot to mention that I am indeed able to send via localhost; problem 
> is, I can’t send it past the internal network.
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> From: address@hidden
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> Behalf Of Martin Pala
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: Problem using gmail as mail server
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> Can you connect to the smtp.gmail.com:587 manually from that machine?
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> You mentioned that you use postfix install as your MTA … you can then 
> switch monit to use your postfix instead of gmail:
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>     set mailserver 127.0.0.1
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> Regards,
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> Martin
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> On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:43 AM, Simpson, Matt wrote:
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> Good afternoon, everyone.
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> I am running a fresh postfix install as my MTA on my local Ubuntu
> 11.10 machine, and I’m using Monit.  I set the following parameters in 
> /etc/monit/monitrc:
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> set mailserver smtp.gmail.com port 587 username “<my username>”
> password “<my password>” using tlsv1 with timeout 30 seconds
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> however, in monit.log, this is the response:
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> [EST Feb  2 18:38:10] error            : Cannot open a connection to
> the mailserver ‘smtp.gmail.com:587’ – Transport endpoint is not 
> connected
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> Thanks,
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> Matt Simpson
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