I got this message on my dashboard: There are 95 email jobs that failed. Check your app.yml and ensure that the mail server settings are correct. The site is an SMTP-less install on a discourse.diy domain. Sidekiq shows: Next Retry Retry Count Queue Job Arguments Error right now 0 defa…

Thanks for posting! That email doesn’t work is expected, but the errors you are seeing are unusual. They might be due to something else in your setup. When I try to send an invite on my test self-hosted instance, I see this error: Jobs::HandledExceptionWrapper: Wrapped Socket::ResolutionError: ge…

There are two types of logged errors: One Job exception: Unsupported command argument type: TrueClass redis-client-0.26.1/lib/redis_client/command_builder.rb:37:in `block in generate' redis-client-0.26.1/lib/redis_client/command_builder.rb:28:in `map!' redis-client-0.26.1/lib/redis_client/comman…

Hmm, neither look related to a plugin. I’ll update my instance (it’s 3 weeks old) and see if I see the same issues.

I guess Disable emails must be yes on those.

Right that might be the cause. It should be automatically set to “No” “Yes” when installing without SMTP I guess?

"There are email jobs that failed" on an SMTP-less install

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Falco (Falco) February 19, 2026, 6:57pm 7

You mean Yes, as the setting is to “Disable”.

It should yes, but when you do that there is a super annoying global banner screaming that emails are disabled.

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"There are email jobs that failed" on an SMTP-less install

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