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Jack Carlin
Jack Carlin

Reputation: 354

Google Compute Engine Port 25 Outbound 'Bypass'?

So I currently rent a hefty server with Google on their Compute Engine platform which costs me around $180 per month. I've never set up a mail server before and got to grips with Exim4 and had some pretty good success after a couple hours of troubleshooting after I found out that Google block all outbound port 25 connections.

Which obviously means I can't send emails from my email server, only receiving them. They then advise clients to use their partner email service SendGrid, in which Google offer a free tier to their existing customers of 25,000 emails per month for free, only problem is you have to pay another $80 per month to remove 'Whitelabeling', the "via" or "on behalf of" on all emails you send.

My question is what are my options in getting around this problem? The only one I can think of and what Google also suggest is to buy a VPN service from them and setup another mail server somewhere else, which is ridiculous as the price I pay for this sole server should come with unrestricted port access.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1495

Answers (2)

David
David

Reputation: 9731

As ssasa mentions you can use any email relay service that operates on non-standard ports, for example many providers allow submission on port 2525.

If you use Google Apps you can use GMail's relay service to send outbound mail without a "sent via".

Upvotes: 2

ssasa
ssasa

Reputation: 1615

You can try with Mandrill from MailChimp https://www.mandrill.com/ We successfully use it with Postfix.

Upvotes: 2

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