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That admin dashboard page also says “You’re up to date!” but when I ssh into the droplet, I’m told that “55 packages can be updated.” Does this require some action?
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### Author:  [@danb35](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danb35)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-failure-after-install/145315/5 "2020-03-24T23:09:27Z")
> [@sturdy2](#):
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> That admin dashboard page also says “You’re up to date!” but when I ssh into the droplet, I’m told that “55 packages can be updated.”
Orthogonal issues. The admin dashboard tells you that Discourse itself is up to date. The message on login to the droplet tells you that there’s system software that can be updated. You should probably investigate how to set up automated updates for this system.
> [@sturdy2](#):
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> Wrapped Net::ReadTimeout: Net::ReadTimeout with #TCPSocket:(closed)
This sounds like your Discourse instance isn’t able to connect to the specified mail server on the specified port. Make sure your configuration is correct, and that DO doesn’t block outbound connections on the port you’re trying to use.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-failure-after-install/145315/6 "2020-03-25T04:41:01Z")
> [@danb35](#):
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> You should probably investigate how to set up automated updates for this system.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master@{2020-03-24}/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#post-install-maintenance](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master@%7B2020-03-24%7D/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#post-install-maintenance)
In Ubuntu use the `dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades` command.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-failure-after-install/145315/7 "2020-03-25T06:49:53Z")
> [@sturdy2](#):
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> `Check your app.yml and ensure that the mail server settings are correct.`
Suggestions, in logical order of execution:
1. Verify that your droplet can connect to the mail server via telnet
2. Verify that the SMTP credentials are functioning independent of the droplet
If 1 fails then you have a network issue, DigitalOcean has been known to block certain outbound ports, and this is the issue 85% of the time.
If both 1 and 2 works then check your app.yml, it’s likely the password either includes a character which is preventing it from being parsed properly (~5% of the time), or you didn’t enter it correctly.
Re the mail server, if you’re hosting a mail server rather than using one of the recommended mail providers then SPF and DKIM can definitely help with deliverability, but you’re likely to be at the tip of the iceberg in terms of mail problems.
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### Author:  [@sturdy2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sturdy2)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-failure-after-install/145315/8 "2020-03-25T22:46:40Z")
Thanks to all for the assistance.
I think the problem was my email server provided by GoDaddy. I never did identify the cause of problem. It seems that GoDaddy has a lot of issues with shared accounts. Ultimately, I decided it wasn’t worth the hassle and searched for recommended email providers and selected [mailjet.com](http://mailjet.com). I opened a mailjet free account and edited app.yml, accordingly. Some additional mailjet config was required. Again, tried the Discourse email test: success. My Discourse community is small so there should be no problem with limited free emails by mailjet. All looks good at this point but I can see there is stilll a lot of configuration ahead.
Thanks again…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-failure-after-install/145315/9 "2020-04-24T22:46:56Z")
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