Hi there — my Ghost instance is not sending magic links, and I’m trying to figure out what is going on. This was working relatively recently, so it’s hard to know what changed, but the full error report is posted below. It starts by saying “Signups from this email domain are currently restricted.” I…

[image] fieldnoise: EmailError CODE: ESOCKET MESSAGE: Failed to send email. Reason: 4048DBD1F67F0000:error:0A00010B Okay — after I thought I tried every combination of this, it turns that when switching to 2525 I also had to switch the secure flag to false. That did the trick!

Ghost has a blocked email domains, that can be set in config.production.json or in the admin panel. What values if any do you have there? Also, since you’re on DO, be aware that they’re blocking most SMTP ports - try switching to 2525 for outbound email, or switch to using an api-based flow for tr…

Thanks for the quick reply! First thing I tried was switching ports to 2525. That threw a new error: NAME: EmailError CODE: ESOCKET MESSAGE: Failed to send email. Reason: 4048DBD1F67F0000:error:0A00010B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/ssl3_record…

[image] fieldnoise: as this port could be closed any minute now… I agree! And it’s not just DO. VPS/server providers are less and less willing to have open SMTP ports on their platform. Just another example of spammers ruining everything.

Log message: Signups from this email domain are currently restricted

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fieldnoise July 29, 2025, 10:26pm 5

Also, @Cathy_Sarisky — thanks for referencing the API-based solution, which I searched for on the forum and found:

this post

I think that is the long term solution for anyone using DigitalOcean, as this port could be closed any minute now…

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Log message: Signups from this email domain are currently restricted

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