Can you connect to the smtp.gmail.com:587 manually from that machine? (for
example using netcat or telnet)
You mentioned that you use postfix install as your MTA … you can then switch
monit to use your postfix instead of gmail:
set mailserver 127.0.0.1
Regards,
Martin
On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:43 AM, Simpson, Matt wrote:
> Good afternoon, everyone.
>
> I am running a fresh postfix install as my MTA on my local Ubuntu 11.10
> machine, and I’m using Monit. I set the following parameters in
> /etc/monit/monitrc:
>
>
> set mailserver smtp.gmail.com port 587 username “<my username>” password “<my
> password>” using tlsv1 with timeout 30 seconds
>
>
>
> however, in monit.log, this is the response:
>
>
>
> [EST Feb 2 18:38:10] error : Cannot open a connection to the
> mailserver ‘smtp.gmail.com:587’ – Transport endpoint is not connected
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Matt Simpson
>
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