Digital Ocean SMTP

Karl.12 days ago

Hi,

I have a Traccar server on digital Ocean and the email alerts have stopped for about a week now.

It seems they have blocked SMTP, has anyone got a work around? They are suggesting to use sendgrid.

Thanks

Karl

Track-trace12 days ago

Why dont you show your config?

Cant you use Gmail? https://www.traccar.org/gmail/

Anton Tananaev12 days ago

You should be able to use any SMTP provider. Sometimes hosting providers block default ports, so some providers have alternative port options. We use Amazon SES a lot. Works well on DigitalOcean servers as well.

Karl.11 days ago

I have turned on the mail.debug command and it logs out "2025-03-20 11:50:53 INFO: Email sent" but nothing is recieved.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/

I have also copied over a working configuration from another server thats hosted on azure and it doesn't work either. (GMAIL config)