Since you are able to connect at home, your office is probably blocking the port using a firewall. To be sure though, you could try on another network.
Not able to connect to smtp server of gmail. Why?
Question
I am trying to connect to a smtp server of gmail using
telnet gmail.smtp.com 587
It gets connnected when I try it from home. But, it shows an error when I try it from my office. What can be the problem?
Here is the error I get connecting to smtp.gmail.com:
Could not open connection to the host, on port 587: Connect Failed
Solution
OTHER TIPS
Your hostname should be - smtp.gmail.com You wrote - gmail.smtp.com
Please change the name
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