# Allow update smtp settings in admin panel

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-update-smtp-settings-in-admin-panel/37110>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [24 Dezembro , 2015 13:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-update-smtp-settings-in-admin-panel/37110 "2015-12-24T13:56:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Post date:** [25 Dezembro , 2015 07:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-update-smtp-settings-in-admin-panel/37110/4 "2015-12-25T07:19:59Z")

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How should this work, exactly? SMTP settings are in `app.yml`, and they need to stay there because they are meant to be configured during set up, before the first administrator account is created. I don’t think that it’s reasonable for Discourse to find and update its own `app.yml` file, so what alternatives are there?

The only reasonable way to do this that I see would be a site sitting for “ignore the SMTP configuration in the container definition and use these settings instead”, which sounds like a support nightmare to me (since now there are two places where the mail configuration could be messed up).

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