[image] This is my current configuration and I cannot create the first admin account because its not sending the activation email. I have used SMTP with my provider and it works, the issue is with discourse I have tried the same credentials with thunderbird and it worked. I have tried my doctor also as this topic suggests. These are the results [image]

I have used brevo. I could not get my custom email to work.

Hi, Spacemail isn’t recommended as a mailing service for Discourse as it’s recommended for personal usage. It is very likely that they are going to block mass emails and/or it just simply won’t work. I use it too. Try using Mailjet, combined with Spacemail, and simply use Mailjet for Discourse-emailing and leave Spacemail for personal use. You can have more than one mailing provider in DNS records. Edit: You can bypass it as @pangbo has suggested but it’s not a long-term solution.

You can create an admin using command line, thereby bypassing the email verification. ./launcher enter app rake admin:create

for port 465, TLS must be true.

This does work but my primary problem is that users cannot register because of that problem.

I have tried, it doesn’t work.

Spacemail isn’t recommended as an email provider as you most likely have their personal business account package which isn’t intended as a sending service. View my reply and use another provider such as Mailjet or Mailgun which you can use on the side for Discourse, it’s free.

As said, I use Spacemail - it is not for commercial sending, it’s not an email provider, it’s a personal business email service.

See Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install. A common problem is that the notification email is set to something that your smtp service won’t send from. It’s likely sending from noreply@your.forum and you likely need to change it to your email address. But in the other topic you created for this problem you say [image]ReadTimeout error (No solution) I get the Net::ReadTimeout error So your vm is blocking outgoing access to that port. Many services support port 2525 for this reason. You might be able to open a ticket and get them to unblock it.

Issue with creating admin account for first time

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Most of the “supported” hosting is extraordinarily overpriced and has very strict limits. And my provider doesn’t have any package they give SMTP access to all accounts.

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Issue with creating admin account for first time

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