Title, basically. I have my self hosted discourse instance set up with SMTP disabled the environment variable DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS set properly to my email that I have this Discourse ID set up with, however, when I try and log in, it kicks me back with an incorrect username, email, or password…

Cannot sign in with Discourse ID even when email matches 'DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS' environment variable

pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj) February 16, 2026, 2:15pm 2

This is a little surprising. When you go directly to id.discourse.com, are you logged in? And if not, can you log in?

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