Continuing the discussion from How to approve user secondary email from command line? : On a more general question, we need an email-less instance of Discourse - i.e. such that it does not need to receive nor send any emails. Is this achievable?

[image] Anton: Is this achievable? I’m not sure if it meets your requirements, but it can be done with DiscourseConnect . Basically, just set a fake email addresses for the email field on the SSO record and set the site’s disable emails setting to either “yes”, or (probably better) “non-staff”…

The solution proposed sounds more like a workaround than a feature. Hence me selecting the Contribute > Feature category for my topic. The idea is to have a truly email-less instance. An example would be a protonmail account that you can setup without specifying any other email (except some cases …

[image] Anton: The solution proposed sounds more like a workaround than a feature. Hence me selecting the #feature::category category for my topic. Ah, from my read it sounded more like a support question than a feature proposal. There is this plugin that may be of some use: [i…

Hey, I’m still working on developing my plugin. It’s still in early stages and I wouldn’t recommend using it in production unless its a must for your community. Although let me know if you have any features you want me to prioritize and I can try to do that.

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meglio (Anton) November 21, 2023, 8:07am 5

Nice to know about them. But their roadmap is 20% complete, so I’m afraid to use it.

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