Can't reach Gmail SMTP servers from my server

[Ovidiu]

No idea what is wrong but I tried sendign emails via a PHP script and it only told it network unreachable so I tried this:

h1870666:~# telnet smtp.gmail.com
Trying 173.194.69.109...
Trying 173.194.69.108...
Trying 2a00:1450:4008:c01::6d...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable

Any idea what could be wrong here?

[topdog]

From that example you are trying to telnet to port 23 which is the default port to test correctly you need to run

telnet smtp.gmail.com 25

[Ovidiu]

oops, port 25 works.

here is the original error from the script, although I must say I also posted in that script author's forum, awaiting a reply:

2012-09-21 10:22:10 000000 -- MAILPRESS [NOTICE] - Image found : wp-content/plugins/mailpress/mp-content/themes/twentyten/images/mailpress.png
2012-09-21 10:22:10 000000 -- MAILPRESS [NOTICE] - Disconnecting from c1fnc (MP_Mail)
2012-09-21 10:22:10 000000 -- MAILPRESS [NOTICE] - Disconnected (MP_Mail)
2012-09-21 10:22:28 000000 -- SWIFTMAILER [ERROR] - There was a problem sending with SMTP :
Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [Network is unreachable #101]
2012-09-21 10:22:28 000000 -- MAILPRESS [NOTICE] - Connecting to c1fnc (MP_Mail sending error : SMTP)
2012-09-21 10:22:28 000000 -- MAILPRESS [NOTICE] - Connected (MP_Mail sending error : SMTP)
2012-09-21 10:22:28 000000 --
2012-09-21 10:22:28 000000 -- MAILPRESS [ERROR] - *** Mail could not be sent ***
2012-09-21 10:22:28 000000 --
2012-09-21 10:22:28 000000 -- **** End logging **** mp_mail *** level : 0 **** status : FALSE

[calixsierra]

Got the same problem too.

Have you solved it?

[Ovidiu]

sorry for not updating the thread: I solved it and it was entirely my own fault.

I forgot to add these TCP ports to my egress filtering firewall: 465,587,995