[Setup] SMTP Connection unexpectedly closed

Mikko Ohtamaa mikko+plone at redinnovation.com
Thu Jun 26 18:45:54 UTC 2014


Hi,

As a workaround I suggest don't use Gmail, but try Mandrill instead (free
too).

Here are almost bullet-proof instructions I have used for many sites with
success:

http://opensourcehacker.com/2013/03/26/using-postfix-and-free-mandrill-email-service-for-smtp-on-ubuntu-linux-server/

Cheers,
Mikko


On 26 June 2014 21:34, jblaney <theman3788 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry if this has been answered before, I've really been looking for a
> solution for this for a while now. I'm trying to set up Plone to send email
> through my gmail smtp. I've configured it on gmail and I've made sure that
> python was compiled with ssl, but when I type in the information it says
> that it keeps unexpectedly timing out. I'm attaching the traceback. any
> help
> would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
> 2014-06-26 11:21:29 ERROR Plone Unable to send test e-mail.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
>
> "/Applications/Plone/buildout-cache/eggs/plone.app.controlpanel-2.3.8-py2.7.egg/plone/app/controlpanel/mail.py",
> line 207, in handle_test_action
>     immediate=True)
>   File
>
> "/Applications/Plone/buildout-cache/eggs/Products.MailHost-2.13.1-py2.7.egg/Products/MailHost/MailHost.py",
> line 237, in send
>     self._send(mfrom, mto, messageText, immediate)
>   File
>
> "/Applications/Plone/buildout-cache/eggs/Products.MailHost-2.13.1-py2.7.egg/Products/MailHost/MailHost.py",
> line 337, in _send
>     self._makeMailer().send(mfrom, mto, messageText)
>   File
>
> "/Applications/Plone/buildout-cache/eggs/Products.CMFPlone-4.3.3-py2.7.egg/Products/CMFPlone/patches/sendmail.py",
> line 12, in _catch
>     return func(*args, **kwargs)
>   File
>
> "/Applications/Plone/buildout-cache/eggs/zope.sendmail-3.7.5-py2.7.egg/zope/sendmail/mailer.py",
> line 46, in send
>     connection = self.smtp(self.hostname, str(self.port))
>   File "/Applications/Plone/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 251,
> in __init__
>     (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
>   File "/Applications/Plone/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 312,
> in connect
>     (code, msg) = self.getreply()
>   File "/Applications/Plone/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 360,
> in getreply
>     + str(e))
> SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed: timed out
>
>
>
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Mikko Ohtamaa
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