Today, in about three hours, I installed Discourse on our VPS and got it running with Mailgun. And I did it with ChatGPT. Yes, I had to rebuild several times, and change the port, and keep asking why this didn’t work or what this error means, but I had never used or installed it before and definitely didn’t have lots of SMTP experience. Self-hosting is easier with ChatGPT and patience.
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(Tad Davis)
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