"I'm getting this error while on some networks, and not on others:" - check that 25th port is available with your ISP, some hosting providers (not ISPs) block all ports and open them with separate request only. May be your ISP has the same policies.
u can as well use this tool http://ping.eu/port-chk/ to determine is port is available telnet smtp.mandrillapp.com 25 Trying 54.195.231.78... Connected to smtp.eu-west-1.mandrillapp.com. mandrill is available throught 25th port. give a shot to boss_mail:send(FromAddress, ToAddress, Subject, Body) from terminal and post result here also post mail related part of boss.config On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 1:33:02 PM UTC+4, Neil Pahl wrote: > > I send my transactional email via mandrill.com and it is quite reliable > in getting emails reliably to their desitination. However, my emails are > not getting to the Mandrill service on some networks when using the CB. > > I'm getting this error while on some networks, and not on others: > > Supervisor boss_mail_sup had child mail_controller started with > boss_mail_controller:start_link([{driver,boss_mail_driver_smtp}]) at > <0.1179.0> exit with reason {error,retries_exceeded,{network_failure," > smtp.mandrillapp.com",{error,closed}}} in context child_terminated > > > Is there I way I can make it work on the other ISPs? I've tried the > following python script from teh same machine and it seems to be working: > > #! /usr/local/bin/python > > > SMTPserver = 'smtp.mandrillapp.com' > sender = '[email protected] <javascript:>' > destination = ['[email protected] <javascript:>'] > > USERNAME = "xxx" > PASSWORD = "xxx" > > # typical values for text_subtype are plain, html, xml > text_subtype = 'plain' > > > content="""\ > Test message > """ > > subject="Sent from Python" > > import sys > import os > import re > > from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP # this invokes the secure SMTP > protocol (port 465, uses SSL) > # from smtplib import SMTP # use this for standard SMTP > protocol (port 25, no encryption) > from email.MIMEText import MIMEText > > try: > msg = MIMEText(content, text_subtype) > msg['Subject']= subject > msg['From'] = sender # some SMTP servers will do this automatically, > not all > > conn = SMTP(SMTPserver) > conn.set_debuglevel(False) > conn.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD) > try: > conn.sendmail(sender, destination, msg.as_string()) > finally: > conn.close() > > except Exception, exc: > sys.exit( "mail failed; %s" % str(exc) ) # give a error message > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/b4a4d75c-fa27-444f-af0c-c46d8586991c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
