# SMTP SSL Error

**URL:** <https://community.n8n.io/t/smtp-ssl-error/1916>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** send-email\
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/smtp-ssl-error/1916 "2020-07-29T08:27:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![jan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/jan/32/9_2.png) [@jan](https://community.n8n.io/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 8:29am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/smtp-ssl-error/1916/2 "2020-07-29T08:29:57Z")

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Are you using docker? If so do you use the default image? In this case you could try the image ending with ` -ubuntu`. This will probably solve this issue as there seem to be some SSL related problems with Alpine (which the default image uses).

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