Google compute engine email using email client

[Noel McCourt]

I'm trying to send emails from Thunderbird with an GCE instance. I have signed up to sendgrid and have followed their instructions and used their settings for outgoing mail. Incoming mail is working fine but the connection to the Sendgrid server times out.

I just need to send email, I don't need Sendgrid. I just signed up as google documentation indicate this was needed to send emails within a GCE.

I have also tried opening port 465 (as I read from another solution) but without success.

Has anyone successully used an email client with a GCE instance to send email? If so, can you help with the correct setup? I'm not tied to Thunderbird.

Thanks.

[Paul Nash]

If you want to send mail from GCE, then you do "need" sendgrid or a corp VPN or some other solution, as Google does not allow outgoing SMTP generally. You didn't mention if you completed the server setup as described in the tutorial or if you've tested that sendgrid is provisioned successfully (by them). In any case, you might also look for previous discussion about sending mail on stackoverflow.