Outbound SMTP (ports 465/587) fully blocked for service — mail sending broken
Anonymous
HOBBYOP

41 minutes ago

Hi,

Our production service is unable to send email over SMTP. We've isolated this to egress blocking on your platform, not our app or our mail provider, and would like it lifted.

Evidence:

railway logs --network --direction egress --port 587 --since 24h shows 219 outbound flows to our SMTP hosts, 100% stuck in partial state — none completed. 128 dropped with cause ICMP_CSUM, 45 with QDISC_DROP.

Connecting directly from inside the running container (railway ssh) to smtp.hostinger.com:

Port 465 (SMTPS): connection hangs, times out after 8s

Port 587 (STARTTLS submission): connection hangs, times out after 8s

Port 993 (IMAPS): connects instantly (~5ms)

So IMAP (mail retrieval) reaches the same host fine from the same container — only the SMTP submission ports are affected. This points to outbound port blocking on SMTP submission ports specifically, on your side, rather than anything with our mailbox provider, DNS, or credentials (both verified working from outside your network).

Ask: please allow outbound traffic on ports 465 and 587 for this service, or let us know if this requires a plan/verification step on our end to enable. This app sends transactional and permission-based B2B outreach email through per-client SMTP mailboxes with modest daily send caps (≈50/mailbox/day) — happy to provide more detail if useful for review.

Thanks,

Shengul

Solved

5 Replies

Railway
BOT

39 minutes ago

Outbound SMTP is only available on the Pro plan and above, while Free, Trial, and Hobby plans have SMTP disabled.

For sending emails from your application, please use a dedicated email service that provides HTTPS APIs. More information can be found in our documentation: Outbound Networking


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 39 minutes ago


Railway

Outbound SMTP is only available on the Pro plan and above, while Free, Trial, and Hobby plans have SMTP disabled. For sending emails from your application, please use a dedicated email service that provides HTTPS APIs. More information can be found in our documentation: [Outbound Networking](https://docs.railway.com/reference/outbound-networking)

Anonymous
HOBBYOP

38 minutes ago

why it dosent say this anywhere? how do I get a refund?


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 38 minutes ago


Railway
BOT

37 minutes ago

The SMTP restriction is documented on the Outbound Networking page linked in our previous reply. You can request a refund by following the docs at Requesting a Refund.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 37 minutes ago


Railway

The SMTP restriction is documented on the [Outbound Networking](https://docs.railway.com/reference/outbound-networking) page linked in our previous reply. You can request a refund by following the docs at [Requesting a Refund](https://docs.railway.com/reference/pricing/refunds#requesting-a-refund).

Anonymous
HOBBYOP

33 minutes ago

Rn I am on the hobby plan and I only spend 0.14 USD in credits. If I upgrade to a Pro plan is it going to charge me only 15 bucks? I already paid the 5 usd for hobby plan


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 33 minutes ago


Railway
BOT

32 minutes ago

Plan upgrades are pro-rated, so the unused portion of your current plan payment will be applied to the new plan automatically. The Pro plan is $20/month with $20 of included resource usage, and the pro-rated credit from your Hobby subscription will offset the upgrade charge for the remainder of this billing cycle.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 32 minutes ago


Status changed to Solved Anonymous 19 minutes ago


Welcome!

Sign in to your Railway account to join the conversation.

Loading...