I am trying to test using Discourse on CentOS 71. I have Docker and Discourse installed…but the problem is configuring SMTP for Email for the initial registration. After installation I can bring up the web interface, congratulating me for successful installation, but it wants an Email address for re…

Hello Why do you need use yahoo ? And not mailgun , mandrill etc

Thanks for the quick reply. I am fairly, and obviously, new at all this (as well as CentOS 7). I don’t have any funding for this at the moment, and am trying to install and get this running for free so I can demo this to my boss for implementation. I don’t ‘need’ to use Yahoo, but I already had a Ya…

Mailgun are free . 10.000mails/month . Please read this : [image] Configure Mailgun for email when using Digital Ocean for DNS Sysadmins I had a little bit of trouble to connect Mailgun and Digital Ocean (espacially the DNS configuration in Digital Ocean), so…

It’s easier/quicker to use the registar to configure the email provider but it still works with DigitalOcean if this provider is a pain in the ass to use. I should add a little disclaimer to this howto The worst that I encounter was internet.bs, they sell domain name but if you don’t use their serv…

Due to the nature of the environment that I am in (DOD) I cannot use any cloud based host.

If you can’t use a cloud based server, you can’t use yahoo for email. Is there an smtp server on your network that you can use?

We do not have any control of our corporate SMTP server, and on top of that, probably could not use it as a relay. We can install Postfix. Is there a good way to configure it for Discourse? Do you think it would be possible to point it to gmail? Thanks so much for the help.

[image] charlie2112: We do not have any control of our corporate SMTP server, and on top of that, probably could not use it as a relay In that case, unless the folks who manage your network are doing a very bad job, the corporate network restricts outgoing mail to approved SMTP servers. Most …

Sorry for derailing the discussion, but are you suggesting that Yahoo is not cloud based? I don’t understand why a 3rd party email provider A is any different from a 3rd party provider B.

[image] ljpp: for derailing the discussion, but are you suggesting that Y I’d like to answer. When you use someone’s (Yahoo/Gmail etc) server to send your emails to some third party, you’re using their (Yahoo/Gmail) resources without any benefit to them. Their reputation gets on stake, bec…

Can you use Yahoo mail SMTP for Discourse?

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djcyry (Cosmin) Septembre 25, 2017, 11:54 4

Mailgun are free . 10.000mails/month .
Please read this :

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Can you use Yahoo mail SMTP for Discourse?

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