Sending email from R in AWS

Asked Nov 15 '17 at 10:13

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I am trying to send myself a test email from an AWS Virtual Machine (using an EC2 instance.)

My R code runs great, but I am now trying to send a test email to my email address using sendmailR.

I get the following error message:

Error in socketConnection(host = server, port = port, blocking = TRUE) : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In socketConnection(host = server, port = port, blocking = TRUE) : localhost:25 cannot be opened

 install.packages("sendmailR")
 library(sendmailR)

 sendmail(from = "XXXX@gmail.com",
      to = "YYYY@gmail.com",
      subject = "Subject of the email",
      body = "Body of the email",
      smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 80 , user.name = "XXXX@gmail.com", passwd = "XXXX", ssl = TRUE),
      authenticate = TRUE,
      send = TRUE)

Does anyone know how this is overcome?

edited Nov 15 '17 at 14:09

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asked Nov 15 '17 at 10:13

Tom

Is this code being executed on an AWS EC2 Instance? – Tom Nijs Nov 15 '17 at 19:44
It is, exactly correct! – Tom Nov 16 '17 at 20:27
Have you tried opening port 25 in the security group of the EC2 instance? – Tom Nijs Nov 16 '17 at 21:55
I'm new to AWS but have an opened port (25) both inbound and outbound: HTTP - Port 80, SSH - Port 22, SMTP - Port 25 – Tom Nov 17 '17 at 13:08
You could also try using the `aws.ses` package to send email via HTTP, especially if you're just trying to reach out to yourself. Another option would be `aws.sns`. Both on CRAN. – Thomas Apr 12 '18 at 20:50

Sending email from R in AWS

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