Hi all! Discourse is awesome, but I’m having trouble getting emails working. I have installed to Azure using a Bitnami VM. I’m on Discourse v1.2.3, and I’m using Mandrill for mail delivery. I went through all the email set up sets and sending test emails works perfectly. However, invites appear ne…

Check the email troubleshooting howto here. Did you verify that mandrill sees the emails through its logs, etc? does the email appear in admin, email, logs? Etc.

OK, I just figured this out, but to answer your question first, Jeff, Mandrill appeared to be getting no notification whatsoever that the app wanted to send a message unless the sent email it came from the email test utility. Oddly, setting the DB hostname (from the IP to the proper name) in the ap…

Fair enough. Is there a better approach you would recommend for deploying Discourse to Azure? Would Docker in a Linux VM be considered a better approach?

The Docker based install, wherever and however you can get it to run, is the only supported install. Unless the target Linux kernel is very old, it should be Docker compatible.

Cool, thanks. I’ll give that a try. I didn’t feel great about using the Bitnami interface anyway. It obscures what’s going on in the background in a way that makes me uneasy.

Test emails work fine but nothing else

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 5월 2, 2015, 4:17오전 4

Part of your problem is Bitnami, this is an unsupported install.

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Test emails work fine but nothing else

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