Trying to figure out how to setup a forum with discourse but having some trouble with SMTP stuff and gmail. essentually I’m trying to figure out how to disable the need for an SMTP server because I’m going to be using Steam Login instead

You can: Create your first admin user with rake admin:create Log into Discourse and configure Enable only social logins that send confirmed emails (Google, Discord, Facebook, etc) That will give you a somewhat working Discourse. Users can enable push notifications to get a nudge when som…

Disabling email verification isn’t something that’s supported. Steam doesn’t provide an email address in their SSO payload either, so you’re still going to need to verify addresses for your users. There are lots of free options for smaller communities .

well theres this that I was planning to use GitHub - discourse/discourse-steam-login: Allows user authentication with discourse via the Steam user API · GitHub which all I need is just steam login. I don’t have any need for email support. especially when its not even sending out emails anyways

also I don’t really need to verify users if steam already has to verify their users so just less work my servers need to do on their end

[image] Discourse Steam Login A simple plugin that enables authentication via Steam. Users must still provide an email address on first authentication. Unless something has changed since the plugin was written, this won’t be a solution if you don’t want to send email. If not sending email is y…

well my issue right now is I can’t even setup the admin account because it wants to use email for it so I kinda need to disable email stuff so I can put steam login on instead.

See Creating admin using rake admin:create in multisite configuration

I don’t get it, what is rake? an admin plugin, panel or some software? I just want to login with steam and not have to bother with a separate server for emails

What you’re trying to do here isn’t supported. You’re going to need to use email, or find a different product.

in the meantime how do I get this thing working with smtp.gmail.com so I can finish setup

Need help regarding SMTP and steam login

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Rapadant_Networks (Rapadant Networks) April 3, 2019, 5:12pm 10

by chance would it be possible to suggest this as a future feature somewhere? because email is kinda a annoying verification method for users

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Need help regarding SMTP and steam login

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