Hello, just a quick question. It’s possible to edit SMTP email options on a working forum? Rebuild command will wipe all forum content (threads, posts, users, design)? in the case that I edit app.yml Thanks.

Rebuild will not destroy any forum content as that’s stored in a persistent database file. It will stop/rebuild/start the app container, however, so your site will be down during the rebuild time.

Thank you @justin , if I decide to use Mailgun is the SMTP configuration similar to in Sendinblue? In Sendinblue had to register, confirm. Go to Transactional emails, you see SMTP details like server, port, user and password. Used that information in Discourse installation and everything worked fine…

[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 I’ve decided to create a little guide to help others : Con…

in containers/app.yml you can change these settings. Then ./launcher rebuild app

You will have to go to the directory where you cloned the Official Discourse Docker image. If you followed the guidelines and typed the suggested directory /var/discourse when cloning the repository git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse then you will have to g…

It’s not necessary to rebuild after changing SMTP details in the app.yml. ./launcher destroy app && ./launcher start app Will suffice.

Configure Mailgun for email when using Digital Ocean for DNS `./launcher rebuild app`` Is this correct？ [image] Slack-Moehrle: in containers/app.yml you can change these settings. Then ./launcher rebuild app thanks a lot ，you are right ，you save me

[image] fatos: I don’t understand why is this not an admin setting. SMTP settings aren’t set in stone and can change overtime. Knowing Discourse as I do, there will be a very genuine and valid reason for this :smiley: Does anyone know what that reason might be? :thinking:

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kratos (fatos) January 22, 2024, 10:52am 9

I don’t understand why is this not an admin setting. SMTP settings aren’t set in stone and can change overtime.

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