[Screenshot%20(301)] How to leave stmp username and pass blank. I don’t want to assign them. While setting it for the first time I made a mistake by assigning an email address. Is there anyway to correct this by leaving it blank? And one more doubt After I make changes to app.yml How do I save t…

If you don’t enter anything in the field the value in the [ ] is used. Please note that gmail is not supported for outbound SMTP. Doing so is against Google’s terms of service and you will very quickly hit rate limits. Please review the email setup guide: discourse/docs/INSTALL-email.md at main · …

But when I hit enter, the value get’s stored as admin@doubtion.com again.

Setup requires one admin account, if you’ve created a second unwanted account you can delete it once you’re logged in. SMTP settings are required for setup, you can’t skip them.

Why would you need them to be blank if you’re going to use g-suite? That doesn’t make any sense. Why not set up email correctly to begin with?

I didn’t set it up correctly the first time. Never received an e-mail. Reason I’m leaving it blank https://crunchify.com/how-to-setup-email-for-discourse-forum-with-google-apps-smtp-relay-right-way/

That doesn’t answer why you would use an unsupported email service over one of the recommended options . Discourse will need working email to function correctly. Please refer to the official documentation rather than the post linked above. Ignore the post from Crunchify suggesting you use Google App…

Hmm how do I set them up. The instructions aren’t clear. I’ve tried using the other providers.

Where is it you’re stumbling? Are you trying to set up the same domain [ doubtion.com ] at both google apps and one of the recommended third parties? You need to use a subdomain for email coming from Discourse, it doesn’t matter what, it just needs to be different. Common suggestions: board.doubtio…

Thank you. i basically have no idea how to use mailgun.

How to leave a field empty while setting up discourse?

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Seshank_K (Seshank K) October 9, 2018, 1:16pm 5

No. basically I am setting up g suite just to get the verification e-mail (while setting up discourse). So I need these two fields to be left blank. Would it be possible?

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