hi. I installed the open source discourse on digitalOcean hosting server. The smtp server used Mailgun Free ver. The mailgun Free ver. smtp installed on discourse is not sending mail, so I want to change the smtp server. How can I replace the smtp server installed in discourse?

[image] Daviz: However, I don’t know which commands to modify in app.yml and how. If what you want to do is change the SMTP settings you can cd /var/discourse ./discourse-setup and it’ll let you change the settings and rebuild when you’re done

Assuming you followed the standard install, the SMTP settings used during discourse setup are stored in the app.yml Look in /var/discourse/containers After editing that file you can either run a rebuild from the terminal, or the shorter: ./launcher destroy app && ./launcher start app

Thank you for your response. But I don’t know the programming language very well. I know it’s a hassle, but if you could tell me how to edit the app.yml file and the path to access the file, I’d appreciate it.

If you did a standard install, you could do something like this: cd /var/disourse nano containers/app.yml If you don’t know what nano is or how to use it, you’ll need to use Google.

Did that work? You can also just run discourse-setup again.

Thank you for your interest. I haven’t tried it yet. I haven’t found any smtp servers that can replace Mailgun, I’ll have to look around a bit more.

I recommend that you get mailgun configured properly. It’s one of the easier ones.

Hi. I accessed the containers.yml with the command you gave me below. cd /var/disourse nano containers/app.yml After that, I need to edit it to change the SMTP server, but I don’t know how to edit file. If it’s not too much trouble, please let me know how to do it.

If you don’t know how to use nano you can Google for that. Also [image] Jay Pfaffman: You can also just run discourse-setup again.

How can I replace the smtp server configured in discourse?

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merefield (Robert) June 27, 2023, 4:34pm 15

FYI I’ve changed the title, as no SMTP server is “installed”.

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