alert email settings

[Haotian-Shi-cyber]

i left the email setting "open relay", and i got this error

[oldkingcone]

Looks like you got a connection refused from Googles' servers. This is a configuration error on the client side(your end).

[Haotian-Shi-cyber]

could you be more specific? i dont know how to fix it

[russhaun]

you have to use a valid username and password

[Haotian-Shi-cyber]

i used the correct username and password in config file, and i got emails alert but it shows tcp and udp ports i couldn't bind to.

[Haotian-Shi-cyber]

also this

[oldkingcone]

did you follow the guide that gmail and google gives for external/custom email clients? because it doesnt sound like you followed the guide.

[Haotian-Shi-cyber]

it shouldn't be this problem cuz i received emails from smtp server but these emails are all telling me that unable to bind udp or tcp ports.

[oldkingcone]

well yea, if the port is already in use you wont be able to bind a second program onto that port. Im confused here, are you trying to have a client send emails through googles smtp servers or are you trying to host your own smtp server?

[Haotian-Shi-cyber]

to be honest, i dont know how to let my honeypot send emails to my own email account, so literally the smtp account and password is my gmail account and then use it to send alerts to my another own email. （guess because honeypot hasn't got a email server on it not sure)
btw how can i fix it.. been working it all day for my honours project much appreciated!!

[oldkingcone]

If i remember correctly, Google only allows specific user-agents or smtp clients to interact with or send email over their SMTP ports. I ran into this issue awhile ago, and had to refer back to googles guide on how to connect an smtp client to their smtp ports, and found they only really allow thunderbird or outlook. For the full implementation of an SMTP client, you may need to consult the RFC on SMTP to understand how the protocol works. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en

[Haotian-Shi-cyber]

i can receive the email alert as i said, in my outlook email account.. i dont know how to bind these ports if it is already in use. which set of commands i can type?

[russhaun]

in the ports section go through the list currently in the config file and see if there are any conflicting ports and remove them.

[Haotian-Shi-cyber]

yeah thx fixed, i killed the process