# Configure Mailgun for email when using Digital Ocean for DNS

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-mailgun-for-email-when-using-digital-ocean-for-dns/40590
**Category:** Sysadmins
**Tags:** email, how-to
**Created:** [04.Март.2016 19:57:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-mailgun-for-email-when-using-digital-ocean-for-dns/40590 "2016-03-04T19:57:40Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [11.Май.2018 16:20:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-mailgun-for-email-when-using-digital-ocean-for-dns/40590/23 "2018-05-11T16:20:55Z")

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Digital Ocean often blocks outgoing SMTP ports (25, 587), so using port 2525 with Mailgun is a way to ensure that you don’t get caught up if they do decide to block you. I use port 2525 for all of my installs to avoid having to worry about whether they decide to block those ports for a given droplet.

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