Please unblock port 25 (allow outbound mail connections)
This is of course already addressed in you documentation, but as far as we're concerned the given answer is inappropriate for us. We do not wish to spam anyone, send mass emails, or abuse the system in any other way. I would expect the service to allow us the chance to prove this and not block such outgoing traffic until any actual offense takes place.
I was very pleased to have started work on your platform, but this single issue is likely to force me to search for a different provider.
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Hello folks,
We are currently testing a new option that may help people send mail without using a third party service. If you are interested in testing this product, please fill out the interest request form here1. Product Management for the feature may reach out to you.
We are also continuing to make improvements to our system to allow for some customers that have an established relationship with us to apply for an exception to be able to send directly on port 25. There are a number of IP reputation issues that have to be worked through for such a use case, so it should not be considered a common solution that will meet everyone’s needs.
We will have more updates on both of these items over time.
1 https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScg6ponYf4bc9HftBh4H4LypqpqKm3AS3bEJ20u_EfgTw59GQ/viewform&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1539107700687000&usg=AFQjCNFJ4f8dyp1OgCLUwjeLWoUKY1-Z6Q
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Biswarup Roy Chowdhury
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Ha ha..
Just created an instance and was working on it in this lockdown phase. was tuning it up one by one. But stuck on webmail. Got lot of knowledge by googling and always thought i am more closer to the solution. At last I fall in here. I was planning to shift all my client from hostgrator anf godaddy in my own server and was very excited too. Google will not give you this facility as they want you to use gsuite and pay again...... :) -
Anonymous
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I’m one of those people who spent a couple of days setting a webmail server just to find that the port 25 is blocked. And from the admin comments (one every two years) I guess that this isn’t changing any time soon. I will then stay with ovh.com
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Derrick
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I can only imagine the number of people that have wasted time setting up their email servers and tried to fix something that is set up not to work. Imagine also assuring/promising your clients you could create it for them. Unbelievable!
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Gerben Meijer
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Paul Nash seems to have jumped ship to Azure. Also, the Cloud Mail product (or at least the Alpha) was cancelled.
Could anyone from Google provide an update as to what we can expect here?
I'd like to move services into GCP and being able to request an exception for port 25 outbound traffic would be highly appreciated. Not everyone is a spammer, there are legitimate use cases too.
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Kelly Trinh
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Both AWS and Azure block 25 but upon providing details of need will open. I know coz I just did it recently as a project to compare VPS/Elastic compute providers. Google fail.
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Anonymous
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I have migrated my critical account which require mails to be working on VMs. Suddenly every thing is working except emails.
I require port 25 unblock to make this possible. Else i will not be left with any option but to switch to AWS. Cant let people hung on for this reason. I doubt port 25 block is that nuisance GCP cant handle with good security measures?
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Carlo Jeff Gaspar
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Hi, we've been using GCP for 3 years and we also need port 25, is there any update? please don't make us move to AWS thank you
anyway your link for exception to be able to send directly on port 25 is not working -
Oscar
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so.... movin to AWS
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Anonymous
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No comments.. Google is annoying.
Trying to rule the world again, now blocking tcp/25. lol
Moving to ionos. -
PCS Web
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"We will have more updates on both of these items over time" must mean every 2-years we'll think about it?
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Wayne Sallee
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Google wants us to use Gmail so that they can harvest more data from us. Google has done a lot of good, but google is getting fat. I'm using 2 other vps providers. I am glad that there is no monopoly, and that we are able to use other providers that do a better job.
Google really should change, and stop blocking ports. But even if they did, I would not use google vps, because they are overpriced, and their fees are very underhanded.
Wayne Sallee
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Earl
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yeah, for this reason alone i am done. I already wasn't happy about using a cloud service from a censoring giant like google, but was intrigued with their $300/12 month free trial. Nope, Will be signing up for the bluehost vps service tomorrow as i've already been using them for years.
i've been working for hours trying to setup a mail server and thought it was something that "I" was doing wrong.
Nope, **** this.
IM OUT.
use tutanota.com for email people.
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priit
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Hi Guys! is very annoying yes agree, i think the best workaround is yandex, i used in many different projects now , so i have really no limits and dont need to pay crazy money, i opted using yandex.com , mail hosting, so i still can have my own emails and free
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Qamarudeen Muhammad
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Finally, I got here, after almost two week of troubleshooting non-existence trouble on my GCP VM with sending email issues. Thinking I can use other port like 2525 (when I know port 25 is blocked by almighty Google) by twerking postfix to do my bidding yet without success.
As one of candidate that partake in Africa Google Scholarship on Google Cloud, I think Google product are far from what weare been told in the classroom after all, I can confirm that, yes all Cloud provider blocked port 25 by default as I had read lots of other people experience on port 25, but it is always open eventually by the provider. Google will do well if it can follow this practice.
I intending moving moving over 100 client on my hosting platform to GCP, but with this impasse, I will put it on hold until the sky is clear.
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Alamgir Hossain
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Hello GC admins/authority!
We use GC for better security and all in all in same place. Every hosting company & datacenter allow to use port 25 and 587,465 for own mail system. It's shame that Google ask to use external service without providing own solution. Why we should use GC when we need to find external solution?
We want to keep our data by own system, not to other provider. So far we also tried to entry to your beta option testing form. But it's also closed!!
We are looking forward to open port 25,465,587 as soon as possible.
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Anonymous
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So I am joining the bandwagon.... It took me a little while to figure out why my mail was not sending. So after wasting 2 days setting up a mail server, only to find out I can never send an email is simply a show-stopper!! I have been thinking about GCP VM usage for a while now.. but after discovering this.. I'm done, I'm not even going to waste my time with Googles bulls**t "were looking into...", because Google has been known to "look into..." blackholes!!
And when you see things like https://killedbygoogle.com/ it makes you wonder if there is any point ...
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Anonymous
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I would have to say not being able to send email directly blows donkey chunks! Why would someone want to rely on a separate host to send email. Looks like pretty much any ISP offering servers weather baremetal, cloud based or what have you they all allow port 25 outgoing mail. The minimal is that you have to justify the port opening but they all do it except google. PUKE!
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Chris
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We use alot of AWS services. This is bad. Will need to run AWS servers as well.. Why should I use GCP when we also need AWS... We only want one cloud hosting and GCP has a major road block for us. Port 25 must have a way to be approved for unblocking like AWS does.
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Guilherme
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16 hours of work only to find out that there is no way to use the 25 door very angry!
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Anonymous
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@ Paul Nash
Hi, any news about port 25, we want to stay in Google Cloud Platform, but if that continues, we will have to migrate sadly or how do I request an exception for port 25