Hi, starting a forum, completely new to discourse, hosted on DO, for some reason has issue with smtp or port issue. Now, wanted to find out if you have gone with google logins or social logins and no issue if local sign ups/logins is not in your forum

[Bild] abeen: hosted on DO, SMTP is blocked on DO by default. If you want to use mail, you’ll need to find a proxy somewhere. Lots of people have said that Mailgun is what works good for Discourse on the cloud but that is not something I have experience with. This might be what you’re after: …

great, i’ve tried sendgrid, mailgun & resend. have same issue, could be port issue, tried all ports. For now I want to see if social logins are fine, and get rid of local logins.

You can disable the enable local logins site setting if you wish to remove local logins. You can also try Discourse ID .

[Bild] abeen: great, i’ve tried sendgrid, mailgun & resend. have same issue, could be port issue, tried all ports. For now I want to see if social logins are fine, and get rid of local logins. hello @abeen welcome :wave: i’ve done numerous self-hosted installs with Mailgun and Resend on Digi…

DO says “Please be informed that, in addition to the previously blocked port 25, ports 465 and 587 have been blocked on droplets as of March 6, 2025. This is to make sure that the DigitalOcean servers are not used to send spam emails.” and I see inside the admin panel There are 30 email jobs that …

[Bild] abeen: DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: “re_my password here” this is probably the main issue causing you problems: you are using curly quotes. YML files do not like this and usually break. you need to use single or double straight quotes like 'password' or "password" [Bild] abeen: DISC…

[Bild] Lilly: while Resend supports this and it should work, the standard is 587 But DigitalOcean has blocked 587, and that’s why 2525 is used.

oh i forgot about DO lol. :woman_facepalming:t2: i moved off them awhile back. in my head i was thinking resend and hetzner. so yea use 2525 (i now recall switching that when i migrated too). edit: i fixed my post. thanks Jakee

Along with the excellent advice above, running a rake emails:test (see Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install ) to immediately show the error is probably going to help.

my site has crashed now. it is a new site with few members, not sure how to download my custom pages and members. don’t want to use smtp at all.

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