I am trying to send myself a test email from an AWS Virtual Machine (using an EC2 instance.)
My R code runs great, but I am now trying to send a test email to my email address using sendmailR.
I get the following error message:
Error in socketConnection(host = server, port = port, blocking = TRUE) : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In socketConnection(host = server, port = port, blocking = TRUE) : localhost:25 cannot be opened
install.packages("sendmailR")
library(sendmailR)
sendmail(from = "XXXX@gmail.com",
to = "YYYY@gmail.com",
subject = "Subject of the email",
body = "Body of the email",
smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 80 , user.name = "XXXX@gmail.com", passwd = "XXXX", ssl = TRUE),
authenticate = TRUE,
send = TRUE)
Does anyone know how this is overcome?