# 550-Verification Failed

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/550-verification-failed/165977
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [October 1, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/550-verification-failed/165977 "2020-10-01T23:12:59Z")
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### Author: ![MidnightCheesePizza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/midnightcheesepizza/32/195297_2.png) [@MidnightCheesePizza](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MidnightCheesePizza)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/550-verification-failed/165977/1 "2020-10-01T23:12:59Z")

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After reinstalling Discourse & using my own website host as my email provider (don’t want to use mailgun because I want to control the inbox and outbox), I’m getting **550-Verification Failed** for every email. but the Email \> Test button works and says ‘SENT!’ (I never get the email)

The email I used for the SMTP settings is:

```plaintext
jeeves@midnightexchange.com

```

But my error under Admin says this:

```plaintext
550-Verification failed for <noreply@forums.midnightexchange.com>

```

My next thought was just to just make an email address with my hosting provider to match, but why is it trying to use an email from the subdomain that I never specified?

Thanks for your time and reading.