Could not open socket

  • Resolved Zach Malmgren

    (@zmalmgren)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    I have spun up an Ubuntu server in Google’s cloud computing platform. I setup Apache to run two of my domains as virtual hosts. Both domains use Postman. On the first domain, Postman works as expected without issue. On the second domain, I get a “Could not open socket” error when trying to send emails.

    In the Apache error log for the virtual host in question, I sometimes get these errors:
    ERROR PostmanWpMailBinder: wp_mail is already bound, Postman can not use it, referer: https://www.novatechnologygroup.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s

    But usually it simply says: ERROR PostmanWpMail: Exception code=0 message=Could not open socket, referer: https://www.novatechnologygroup.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=postman%2Femail_test

    I have included the diagnostic test from both sites.

    It doesn’t work here

    OS: Linux instance-1 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:20 UTC 2015 x86_64
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.130 Safari/537.36
Platform: PHP Linux 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11 / WordPress  4.2.4 en_US
PHP Dependencies: iconv=Yes, spl_autoload=Yes, openssl=Yes, sockets=Yes, allow_url_fopen=Yes, mcrypt=No
WordPress Theme: Twenty Fourteen
WordPress Plugins: Postman SMTP, Revolution Slider, WP Construction Mode Pro
Postman Version: 1.6.23
Postman Sender Domain (Envelope|Message): teamntg.com|teamntg.com
Postman Prevent Message Sender Override (Email|Name): Yes|Yes
Postman Transport URI: smtp:none:plain://mail.teamntg.com:26
Postman Transport Status (Configured|Ready|Connected): Yes|Yes|No
Postman Deliveries (Success|Fail): 0|9
Postman Bind (Success|Fail|Path): Yes|No|/var/www/novatechnologygroup.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/postman-smtp/Postman/PostmanWpMailBinder.php
Postman TCP Timeout (Connection|Read): 10|60
Postman Email Log (Enabled|Limit|Transcript Size): Yes|10|128
Postman Run Mode: production
Postman PHP LogLevel: 40000
Postman Stealth Mode: No
Postman File Locking (Enabled|Temp Dir): Yes|/tmp

    It Works Here

    OS: Linux instance-1 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:20 UTC 2015 x86_64
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.130 Safari/537.36
Platform: PHP Linux 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11 / WordPress  4.2.3 en_US
PHP Dependencies: iconv=Yes, spl_autoload=Yes, openssl=Yes, sockets=Yes, allow_url_fopen=Yes, mcrypt=No
WordPress Theme: X
WordPress Plugins: Cornerstone, Postman SMTP, Revolution Slider
Postman Version: 1.6.23
Postman Sender Domain (Envelope|Message): zachmalmgren.com|zachmalmgren.com
Postman Prevent Message Sender Override (Email|Name): Yes|Yes
Postman Transport URI: smtp:none:plain://mail.zachmalmgren.com:26
Postman Transport Status (Configured|Ready|Connected): Yes|Yes|Yes
Postman Deliveries (Success|Fail): 2|0
Postman Bind (Success|Fail|Path): Yes|No|/var/www/zachmalmgren.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/postman-smtp/Postman/PostmanWpMailBinder.php
Postman TCP Timeout (Connection|Read): 10|60
Postman Email Log (Enabled|Limit|Transcript Size): Yes|10|128
Postman Run Mode: production
Postman PHP LogLevel: 40000
Postman Stealth Mode: No
Postman File Locking (Enabled|Temp Dir): Yes|/tmp

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  • Plugin Author Jason Hendriks

    (@jasonhendriks)

    Could not open socket is a TCP connection error caused by either no service running on that port, or a firewall or setting preventing WordPress from reaching it.

    For the mail.zachmalmgren.com server, I don’t know why you chose non-standard port 26. If you run the Wizard, you will find that Postman detects standard ports 25, 465 and 587, preferring 587 with authentication.

    For the mail.teamntg.com server, there doesn’t appear to be any mail service running.

    Postman has a Connectivity Test you can use to verify this for yourself.

    Thread Starter Zach Malmgren

    (@zmalmgren)

    ::sigh:: You were right. ‘mail.teamntg.com’ wasn’t setup properly in DNS with a corresponding MX record.

    I swear this had been working at one point.

    My apologies.

    Thank you for your help.

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