Error when sending email with jenkins

Question

I'm trying to use email sending in jenkins. I leave default values, click on 'Test configuration' button and get error: Failed to send out e-mail javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25; nested exception is: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1934) at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:638) What I missed? It's not working by default?

Accepted Answer

I configured Jenkins with my gmail account using the settings as given in the image below.

Error when sending email with jenkins

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