Just went through a clean install on Digital Ocean. Bootstrapped and started fine. Went to mailtest app and option isn’t even there? root@talk:/var/discourse# ./launcher mailtest app Usage: launcher COMMAND CONFIG [–skip-prereqs] Commands: start: Start/initialize a container stop: S…

That functionality was ripped out because it didn’t exactly work. Boot it all the way up, and send test emails from the admin panel; those go through the same routes as everything else.

Where are you finding reference to mailtest? We need to excise those. I can think of two places… Edit: I just cleaned up a whole bunch of old topics referring to old email issues that should not happen with current versions (and/or are covered in the email troubleshooting guide), or are referring t…

You’re quick! Force of habit after installing, checked and saw it on the post-install maintenance section of the install, but you snagged that one too. Thanks guys.

[image] riking: Boot it all the way up, and send test emails from the admin panel; those go through the same routes as everything else. But what if you can’t even access the admin panel because you couldn’t activate your admin account after a fresh install because you didn’t got the activatio…

If you’re using SES, you can set DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL to set the from address before being able to access the site settings. Or you can ./launcher enter app and run rake admin:create.

Does rake admin:create also activates the account? It’s not about a domain problem or something else but how am I supposed to test if the system is able to send emails at all, i.e. if the configured SMTP server is working? Or do I understand something wrong with the activation email? I mean the SMT…

[image] Kovah: Does rake admin:create also activates the account? Yes it does activate the admin account.

Okay then the mailtest function is not needed. Thanks for the fast answer!

No mailtest option after install

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) July 28, 2015, 11:20pm 7

This shouldn’t happen – the domain name of the “from” email is set to the actual domain name of the site at install time.

The only way this would be a problem is if the domain name of the site is not set correctly, either.

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No mailtest option after install

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