I’ve been trying for days now to integrate Discourse into the Digital Ocean account, and I just know it’s something extremely simple, but I’ve tried 10 different ways and the email just never sends. The following is the information (minus pass of course) into it and then the cpanel email information. If someone has any ideas what I input wrong, please tell me. Thank you. Enter the email address to use for the Discourse admin account (ex. user@example .org) admin@community.gamermeld.com Enter the domain or subdomain pointed to this Discourse instance (ex. forum.exam ple.org): community.gamermeld.com Enter the SMTP server to use to send email (ex: smtp.example.org): community.gamermeld.com SMTP Port (default 587):2525 SMTP Username (ex. user@example.org): admin@community.gamermeld.com SMTP Password: Thanks! Your Discourse instance is now being configured…this can take a few minutes… Non-SSL Settings (This is NOT recommended.) Username: admin@community.gamermeld.com Password: Use the email account’s password. Incoming Server: community.gamermeld.com IMAP Port: 143 POP3 Port: 110 Outgoing Server: community.gamermeld.com SMTP Port: 2525 Authentication is required for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP. Secure SSL/TLS Settings (Recommended) Username: admin@community.gamermeld.com Password: Use the email account’s password. Incoming Server: secureus78.sgcpanel.com IMAP Port: 993 POP3 Port: 995 Outgoing Server: secureus78.sgcpanel.com SMTP Port: 465 Authentication is required for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP. Thank you for any help.

My guess is that the SMTP server won’t allow you to send from your Digital Ocean server and instead wants you to connect from wherever cPanel is running.

I don’t understand that though. How do I fix it?

Email just refuses to work

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 25, 2017, 2:34am 4

You’ll need to talk to whomever runs that server.

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Email just refuses to work

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