I would like to apologize for the email outage for the last three days. I have finally fixed the issue. All emails should be operating as usual from now on. Below is the reason why I had to manually activate accounts for new sign ups and why no daily market update emails were sent.
The Short Version
- My hosting provider, DigitalOcean, decided to block my SMTP port (needed for sending email)
without notice or warning.
- I realized StocksCafe could not send emails on Sunday morning.
- At first, I thought I configured something wrong. Spent my entire Sunday googling, searching, and trying different ways to fix it.
- After trying many different approaches and reading numerous articles, I started to suspect it is on DigitalOcean's side.
- Opened a ticket requesting assistance.
- 5 hours later, got a reply from them saying something along the line of "Yes, ......