# Allow sending test emails when mail is disabled?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-sending-test-emails-when-mail-is-disabled/103931>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-sending-test-emails-when-mail-is-disabled/103931 "2018-12-10T18:53:07Z")\
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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:** [December 11, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-sending-test-emails-when-mail-is-disabled/103931/2 "2018-12-11T04:24:56Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> It turns out mail is disabled, and the mail test silently fails. Nothing in logs, nothing in skipped. I was just writing a mean note to Mailgun when I figured out how it was my fault.

Hmm yeah we should add an explicit warning here @sam can you assign this out?

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