Trying to install discourse. Domain is hosted my Namecheap. Using Namecheap email hosting. address is set to admin@mydomain.com Using Digital Ocean for VPS Hosting. Email between me@gmail.com - admin@mydomain.com work fine (both ways) Not receiving the email from the Discourse install. Cannot activate. in the app.yml: developer emails admin@mydomain.com smtp server: mail.privateemail.com Port 587 admin@mydomain.com mypassword (that i login with on the web email hosting) Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Please list your results from every step of the email troubleshooting howto topic.

[image] mootzoo: admin@mydomain.com mypassword (that i login with on the web email hosting) Are you sure that the mail server password is the same as your login password…?

For namecheap it isn’t, no. A good step to test any mail account is to connect it to mail.app, windows mail or similar.

first time setting up a system like this…and I didn’t have a clear picture on how it all works. figured it out, using zoho mail. thanks for the help.

sorry for posting on old post I use Namecheap for my domains and have also subscribed to email service for respective domains. Can i integrate Namecheap email service to work with Discourse instead of free Mailjet account?

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riking (Kane York) September 6, 2015, 8:58pm 3

Are you sure that the mail server password is the same as your login password…?

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