# Confusing email documentation

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-email-documentation/328774>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [October 1, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-email-documentation/328774 "2024-10-01T03:06:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aroldo\_Barroso](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aroldo_barroso/32/452563_2.png) [@Aroldo\_Barroso](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aroldo_Barroso)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-email-documentation/328774/1 "2024-10-01T03:06:45Z")

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I swear to God, I’ve been sitting in a chair for 4 hours trying to figure out how to set up my forum to send emails. I looked at the Discourse documentation and didn’t understand a thing. I found hundreds of questions here on the forum, but the administrators who answer have a habit of answering very technically, with few instructions. I feel like a real idiot incapable of doing something that should be so simple. It took me a little over 40 minutes to set up a Debian station, install Discourse, open the ports on my firewall and get it to work on my DDNS. However, I’ve been trying to figure out for 4 hours how to set up the email to notify new users, validate registrations, etc. Is there really no step-by-step tutorial? I’ve looked everywhere on the internet and couldn’t find anything. Could someone who knows how to do it, who is having a good day, in a good mood and with a light heart, help me? Thank you! May God bless the soul of whoever helps me!

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