Google Workspace Email SMTP | Railway | Page 1

noble bobcat Aug 27, 2025, 10:19 AM

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When I am using my personal Gmail username and password for SMTP configuration and sending emails from my Railway deployed Go Server, it works perfectly, but when I am using my Google Workspace Email for the same purpose, it fails, I have been stuck at this for about 3 days now, I have checked all the available resources on Google Workspace side, I am not using Gmail Relay, the password being used is an App Password with Less Secure Apps turned ON.

I want to understand if there any restrictions on Railway's side ? If somebody has already implemented this, can you please guide me !

soft grotto Aug 27, 2025, 1:20 PM

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We have disabled SMTP for free, trial, and hobby, SMTP is only enabled for the pro plan and above.

https://docs.railway.com/reference/outbound-networking

dire hawk Aug 27, 2025, 1:53 PM

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@soft grotto Hi, i'm trying to use this when deploying on railway instead, which I think uses API rather than SMTP? Can you confirm whether I should expect this to work or not?

https://github.com/krig/strapi-provider-email-brevo-k

GitHub

GitHub - krig/strapi-provider-email-brevo-k: Strapi email provider ...

Strapi email provider for Brevo. Contribute to krig/strapi-provider-email-brevo-k development by creating an account on GitHub.

soft grotto Aug 27, 2025, 2:21 PM

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That uses an HTTPS API to send emails so that will work perfectly!

dire hawk Aug 27, 2025, 2:42 PM

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@soft grotto connection seems to be timing out when trying to send emails from railway but not when running locally. Any idea what could be causing this?

soft grotto Aug 27, 2025, 2:42 PM

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Please provide error logs.

dire hawk Aug 27, 2025, 2:43 PM

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data:
{ }
code:
"ETIMEDOUT"
command:
"CONN"
level:
"error"
timestamp:
"2025-08-27T14:41:05.280Z"```

soft grotto Aug 27, 2025, 2:43 PM

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I'm going to need more information. What is the host and port that the connection is timing out with?

dire hawk Aug 27, 2025, 2:45 PM

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soft grotto I'm going to need more information. What is the host and port that the connectio...

Not providing a host and port for the email, just a API key to Brevo. The timeout is when sending an email using the linked package

soft grotto Aug 27, 2025, 2:45 PM

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Please provide the host and port that the connection is timing out with.

dire hawk Aug 27, 2025, 2:46 PM

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I'm not sure what you mean. The package doesn't require a host and port providing.

Is there a range of IP addresses I might need to permit in Brevo to allow requests from Railway?

soft grotto Aug 27, 2025, 2:53 PM

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Does Brevo have a whitelist?

dire hawk Aug 27, 2025, 3:07 PM

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ive just deactivated ip blocking and its still timing out. Let me have a look in the CMS for any other reasons

quick remnantBOT Aug 27, 2025, 8:14 PM

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New reply sent from Help Station thread:

I'm facing similar situation, have an account from google workspace and app password, sending emails using nodemailer, suddenly I stop being able to do this, any recommended alternative to this? Why was blocked?