You need to set up a mail sender to do that such as mailgun, brevo, elastic email, or another that is the first step you must choose your sender then there are few steps to make that work.
Firstly this means you need to create an account with a transactional e-mail sender then integrate that with your discourse install.
This is step two of the standard install :
**Set up Discourse in the cloud in under 30 minutes** with zero knowledge of Rails or Linux shell. One example
is [DigitalOcean][do], but these steps will work on any **Docker-compatible** cloud provider or local server. This
walkthrough will go through these in detail:
**[Before you start](#before-you-start)**
1. [Preparing your domain name](#1-preparing-your-domain-name)
2. [Setting up email](#2-setting-up-email)
**[Installation](#installation)**
3. [Create new cloud server](#3-create-new-cloud-server)
4. [Access new cloud server](#4-access-your-cloud-server)
5. [Install Prerequisites for Docker](#5-install-prerequisites-for-docker-debianubuntu-based-distro-example)
6. [Install Discourse](#6-install-discourse)
7. [Edit Discourse configuration](#7-edit-discourse-configuration)
8. [Start Discourse](#8-start-discourse)
9. [Register new account and become admin](#9-register-new-account-and-become-admin)
10. [Post-install maintenance](#10-post-install-maintenance)
11. [(Optional) Add more Discourse features](#11-optional-add-more-discourse-features)
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### Recommended Email Providers for Discourse
We strongly recommend using a dedicated email service. Email server setup and maintenance is _very_ difficult even for experienced system administrators, and getting any part of the complex required email setup wrong means your email won't be delivered, or worse, delivered erratically.
The following are template configurations for email service providers known to work with Discourse.
_The pricing information is included as a courtesy, and may be out of date. Discourse does not control the pricing for external services, be sure to check with the email provider for up to date pricing information._
**Please note that in any email provider, you _must_ verify and use the subdomain, e.g. `discourse.example.com`. If you verify the domain only, e.g. `example.com`, mail will not be configured correctly.**
Enter these values when prompted by `./discourse-setup` per the [install guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#edit-discourse-configuration). To change the current email service, run `./discourse-setup` as well (this will bring the forum offline for a few minutes while it gets rebuilt).
#### [Brevo, previously SendInBlue, GDPR][sb] — 9,000 email per month free
SMTP server address? smtp-relay.brevo.com
SMTP user name? [SMTP credentials for your domain under [SMTP-Key tab](https://app.brevo.com/settings/keys/smtp)]
SMTP password? [SMTP credentials for your domain under [SMTP-Key tab](https://app.brevo.com/settings/keys/smtp)]
Port: 587
#### [Mailgun][gun] — 5k emails/month on a 3 month trial
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This is the troubleshooting guide:
You just installed Discourse via the install guide , but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install.
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