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Adrian Grigore
Adrian Grigore

Reputation: 33318

Elmah sends error mail on development server, but not on production

I am trying to set up Elmah so that it sends me an e-mail when a new error occurs. This works fine on my development server, but on the production server no e-mail is sent. The exception is logged on the production server, it's just the e-mail that does not get sent.

Here are my elmah configuration settings:

<elmah>
        <security allowRemoteAccess="yes"/>

        <errorMail
     from="<MYGOOGLELOGIN>@googlemail.com"
     to="<MYGOOGLELOGIN>@googlemail.com"
     subject="ERROR From Elmah"
     async="false"
     smtpPort="587"
     useSsl="true"
     smtpServer="smtp.gmail.com"
     userName="<MYGOOGLELOGIN>@googlemail.com"
     password="<MYGOOGLEPASSWORD>" />


</elmah>

I've tried different mail servers, both local and remote, and I tried both synchronous and asynchronous mail sending but to no avail.

Now I don't have the slightest idea how to proceed (apart from debugging Elmah on my production server, which seems like a lot of effort to set up). Please help!

Thanks,

Adrian

Edit: I might also add that I tried switching off the firewall on the production server, but that did not make any difference either.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 986

Answers (1)

Doug
Doug

Reputation: 6518

This sounds like a text book port blocking on a firewall somewhere (local or isp level)

try connecting to the smtp from the production box using command line telnet

instructions are here: http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html

if you can't connect using the above method with port 587, then it is DEFINITELY a firewall issue - if not we can keep thinking, but does your servers application error log shown any failure from the message send?

Upvotes: 1

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