# 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:  [@Architect](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Architect)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-email-documentation/328774/2 "2024-10-01T03:16:36Z")
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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true):
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This is the troubleshooting guide:
> [@Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshoot-email-on-a-new-discourse-install/16326):
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> You just installed Discourse via [the install guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL.md), but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install. cry Let’s troubleshootize! Try the doctor woman_health_workerIf you run ./discourse-doctor it will check several ways that your mail configuration might be broken, and offer advice. Try that first. Did you enter email settings correctly? The simplest way is to run ./discourse-setup again. Did you enter everything correctly? B…
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