# Using Discourse with SparkPost

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-with-sparkpost/36175>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [November 30, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-with-sparkpost/36175 "2015-11-30T22:16:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ernest](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ernest/32/95730_2.png) [@ernest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ernest)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 7:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-with-sparkpost/36175/4 "2018-05-02T07:32:10Z")

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If you are running your Discourse on Google Cloud Platform, you have to set your port to 2525 and not to 587.

Google Cloud Platform doesn’t allow outbound connection to ports 25, 465 and 587.

This applies to any email provider.

Learned this hard way while setting up Ghost blog and going mad for couple of days 🙂

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