I swear to God, I’ve been sitting in a chair for 4 hours trying to figure out how to set up my forum to send emails. I looked at the Discourse documentation and didn’t understand a thing. I found hundreds of questions here on the forum, but the administrators who answer have a habit of answering very technically, with few instructions. I feel like a real idiot incapable of doing something that should be so simple. It took me a little over 40 minutes to set up a Debian station, install Discourse, open the ports on my firewall and get it to work on my DDNS. However, I’ve been trying to figure out for 4 hours how to set up the email to notify new users, validate registrations, etc. Is there really no step-by-step tutorial? I’ve looked everywhere on the internet and couldn’t find anything. Could someone who knows how to do it, who is having a good day, in a good mood and with a light heart, help me? Thank you! May God bless the soul of whoever helps me!

You need to set up a mail sender to do that such as mailgun, brevo, elastic email, or another that is the first step you must choose your sender then there are few steps to make that work. Firstly this means you need to create an account with a transactional e-mail sender then integrate that with your discourse install. This is step two of the standard install: docs/INSTALL-cloud.md main # Install Discourse on a Cloud Server > To install and self-host Discourse, follow the steps below. But if you'd rather skip the setup, maintenance, and server management, our official Discourse hosting plans (Free, Pro, Business or Enterprise) take care of everything for you. > > [Learn more about Discourse hosting](https://discourse.org/pricing) > If you prefer to self-host but need help setting it up we have partners who can help. > [Click here to explore self-hosting set-up options](https://discourse.org/partners). **Set up Discourse in about 10 minutes** with zero knowledge of Rails or Linux shell. Works on any Docker-compatible cloud provider or local server. ## Contents - [Quick Start](#quick-start) - [Requirements](#requirements) - [Installation](#installation) - [The Setup Wizard](#the-setup-wizard) - [After Installation](#after-installation) - [Advanced Configuration](#advanced-configuration) - [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) This file has been truncated. show original docs/INSTALL-email.md main ### Recommended Email Providers for Discourse We strongly recommend using a dedicated email service. Email server setup and maintenance is _very_ difficult even for experienced system administrators, and getting any part of the complex required email setup wrong means your email won't be delivered, or worse, delivered erratically. The following are template configurations for email service providers known to work with Discourse. _The pricing information is included as a courtesy, and may be out of date. Discourse does not control the pricing for external services, be sure to check with the email provider for up to date pricing information._ **Please note that in any email provider, you _must_ verify and use the subdomain, e.g. `discourse.example.com`. If you verify the domain only, e.g. `example.com`, mail will not be configured correctly.** Enter these values when prompted by `./discourse-setup` per the [install guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#edit-discourse-configuration). To change the current email service, run `./discourse-setup` as well (this will bring the forum offline for a few minutes while it gets rebuilt). #### [Brevo, previously SendInBlue, GDPR][sb] — 300 email per day free SMTP server address? smtp-relay.brevo.com SMTP user name? [SMTP credentials in [SMTP & API page](https://app.brevo.com/settings/keys/smtp)] SMTP password? [SMTP credentials in [SMTP & API page](https://app.brevo.com/settings/keys/smtp)] Port: 587 #### [Mailgun][gun] — 50k emails/month on a 30 day trial OR 10k emails/month with no trial This file has been truncated. show original This is the troubleshooting guide: [image] Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install Self-Hosting You just installed Discourse via the install guide, but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install. cry Let’s troubleshootize! Try the doctor woman_health_worker If you run ./discourse-doctor it will check several ways that your mail configuration might be broken, and offer advice. Try that first. Did you enter email settings correctly? The simplest way is to run ./discourse-setup again. Did you enter everything correctly? B…

There is a way: [image] Disable Email Verification for Discourse Plugin Plugin envelope_with_arrow Summary Disable Email Verification for Discourse is a fork of the unmaintained angelim/discourse_user_auto_activation and provides an option for administrators to bypass the email verification step during user registration. No more waiting for email confirmations; get users started immediately. hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/codergautam/disable-email-verification-discourse open_book Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse … But firstly to create a new site you need to have an administrator e-mail address.

Do you know how to REMOVE the requirement to verify email to create new accounts? The only thing I needed for email to work was the function to validate new registrations. I think this is also unnecessary. The user can simply enter their name and password and they are already on the forum. Can you tell me if this is possible?

Hi @Aroldo_Barroso :wave: I’m sorry you’re having trouble finding the information you need to setup email. Most of the installation and set up information you are looking for can be found in the #documentation category. Maybe have a look at these topics: [image] Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install Self-Hosting You just installed Discourse via the install guide, but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install. cry Let’s troubleshootize! Try the doctor woman_health_worker If you run ./discourse-doctor it will check several ways that your mail configuration might be broken, and offer advice. Try that first. Did you enter email settings correctly? The simplest way is to run ./discourse-setup again. Did you enter everything correctly? B… [image] Email delivery configuration checklist Self-Hosting Email deliverability is complicated. Here are a few important things you should check first: Be sure to set the DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL: correctly in your app.yml file. The domain specified in the “from” address of the emails you send is the domain your email will be validated against. Know how to view the raw source of the email in your mail client, so you can examine email headers for important clues. In Gmail, it is the “show original” option in the drop-down menu at the top right …

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