I’m not receiving emails when I create an account and I was wondering if I did anything wrong.. what’s the difference between an SMTP address and an SMTP domain?

SMTP address: user@example.com SMTP domain: example.com

Do you think you could help me? I’ve used an SMTP tool online and it all works fine, but Discourse doesn’t seem to be sending emails when I sign up..

Hello and welcome @ethhaqn :slight_smile: Have you checked out the troubleshooting guide? [image] Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install Self-Hosting You just installed Discourse via the install guide , but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this…

I used telnet mail.theapi.tech 25 and it returned 220 myhelper.tech ESMTP Postfix, an old domain that I used for testing this system. Do you think it’s making an impact on email sending? If so, where can I change the domain? Again, it’s an old domain but I’m not sure where I could’ve inputted this d…

I used tail shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log and the logs say: Processing by FinishInstallationController#confirm_email as HTML Rendered finish_installation/confirm_email.html.erb within layouts/finish_installation (Duration: 0.7ms | Allocations: 255) Rendered layout layouts/finish_in…

openssl s_client -connect mail.theapi.tech:25 -starttls smtp -showcerts Verification error: self signed certificate So you need to set DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: none in your app.yml

Won’t that make it so that you don’t need to verify your email?

No. It will make Discourse skip the verification that is failing right now.

Ah, there we go. How would I get an SSL certificate? This is in my app.yml btw: [image]

[image] ethhaqn: How would I get an SSL certificate? I think the part where you set up your own mail server is outside of the scope of this forum.

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