On 2024-09-26, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2024-09-26, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sep 26 10:03:33 Gentoo-1 smartd[27728]: Executing test of <mail> to root ... >> Sep 26 10:05:40 Gentoo-1 msmtp[30861]: host=smtp.gmail.com tls=on >> auth=off from=rdalek1967<at>gmail.com recipients=root errormsg='cannot >> connect to smtp.gmail.com, port 587: Connection timed out' >> exitcode=EX_TEMPFAIL > > It looks like your network is broken. Try this: > > $ telnet smtp.gmail.com 587 > Trying 209.85.145.109... > Connected to smtp.gmail.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP 8926c6da1cb9f-4d888860978sm58959173.69 - gsmtp
BTW, some ISPs block connections to SMTP ports on hosts other than their own mail servers. [Which is a particularly annoying type of "broken".]
