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Thread: Send Email from Localhost

  1. 04-30-2009, 12:37 PM #1
    Rita is offline Senior Member
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    I setup the Mail Server DNS as localhost because SMTP server is installed in my local machine. and also
    mail server username
    password
    Receipt EMail sends from
    New Order Notifications send to
    Send Receipt EMails
    has correct credentials. But still when i tried to "send test mail" (Send Test button), its throwing an following exception,

    Mail Error occurred - Exception=Failure sending mail.
    Unable to connect to the remote server
    No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:25.

    What could be the issue?
  2. 04-30-2009, 12:39 PM #2
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    LOL. sending from localhost (puke)

    relaying issues come to mind. no host will allow that.

    email from localhost is a non starter in this day and age in almost all cases

    Use your proper authenticated domain/host/isp mail server for this.
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  3. 04-30-2009, 12:55 PM #3
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    Thanks for your immediate reply. it may be silly question. but i don't have idea about how can we get authenticated domain for dev machine? Is it possible?
  4. 04-30-2009, 12:57 PM #4
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    you could yes. but not to send from "localhost" all ISPs now will reject that nonsense. Let me ask Dan on how to do this...
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  5. 04-30-2009, 01:01 PM #5
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    It looks like your local mail server is actually rejecting the connection, which means you either have your mail server set up improperly or there is a firewall blocking the connection. I would strongly recommend just using your ISP's assigned SMTP server.