# Admin activation E-Mail not sent on fresh self-hosted install (ubuntu 20.04)

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [January 17, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-activation-e-mail-not-sent-on-fresh-self-hosted-install-ubuntu-20-04/176330 "2021-01-17T01:22:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-activation-e-mail-not-sent-on-fresh-self-hosted-install-ubuntu-20-04/176330/4 "2021-01-22T03:22:34Z")

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Post code as proper code blocks, that’s why you ran into the problems you did.

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