POP3-SSL connection issue on Bluehost

  • Resolved Jan Koch

    (@foack)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hey,

    I’d love to use Postie on Bluehost, to connect to my Gmail account.
    The connection I’m using is the same given in http://postieplugin.com/postie-gmail/

    However, there’s a timeout error in the connection. I checked with the Bluehost support that port 995 is open for outbound connections and the configuration seems to work on other webhosts (e.g. strato.de).

    Here’s a debug log:

    Checking for mail manually with debug output
Starting mail fetch
Postie Version: 1.5.22
WordPres Version: 3.9.1
PHP Version: 5.4.29
OS: Linux box245.bluehost.com 3.4.87-20140414.1.bh6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Apr 14 15:59:08 EDT 2014 x86_64
Debug mode: On
Time: 2014-07-01 10:34:07 GMT
Error log: error_log
Postie is in /home2/propellg/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/postie
Cron: On
Alternate Cron: Off
iconv: installed
imap: installed
mbstring: installed
wp_content_path: /home2/propellg/public_html/wordpress/wp-content
MAKE SURE POP IS TURNED ON IN SETTING AT Gmail
Connecting to pop.gmail.com:995 (pop3-ssl)
pop3: using Google INBOX
pop3: connection string - {pop.gmail.com:995/service=pop3/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}INBOX
pop3: disabling GSSAPI
Mail Connection Time Out
Common Reasons: Server Down, Network Issue, Port/Protocol MisMatch
Array
(
    [0] => Can't connect to gmail-pop.l.google.com,995: Connection timed out
    [1] => Can't connect to gmail-pop.l.google.com,995: Connection timed out
    [2] => Can't connect to gmail-pop.l.google.com,995: Network is unreachable
)

The Server said:
pop3: expunge
pop3: closing connection
There are 0 messages to process

    Hope you can help!

    Thanks,
    Jan

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/

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  • Garth Mortensen

    (@voldemortensen)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    foack, Bluehost only has port 995 open for incoming connections by default. To get that port open for outgoing connections you would need to get a dedicated IP and request that port 995 be opened for outgoing connections.

    Thread Starter Jan Koch

    (@foack)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks voldemortensen!

    I already had a chat with them about opening 995 constantly for outbound connections, but since the WP is on shared hosting, getting a dedicated IP won’t work.

    So I’ll have to look for a different version and use an email account hosted at Bluehost.

    Thanks!

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