I like Discourse but recently ran into some issues. My hosting company and Discourse maintainer said that Discourse could not run without mailer support. It took about a month to get everything setup. That host and company are no longer in service and I have to setup a new install somewhere with a b…

It’s that hard to config the email? Have your follow the official install instruction and try the recommended providers?

Email is central to identity at Discourse and the web at large. If you configured the site so You can only login via Google / Facebook You disable local logins You disable all email notifications. You could have a site that functions ok without access to any email server.

Thinking out loud. When I wrote server side code more often there were mail API’s that would send out mail. My hosting company (of the main site) also allows sending mail via PHP through Wordpress. The only requirement is that a mail account that is used to send mail be setup on the server. They di…

Hi @hawm , I did not do my own Discourse install. I paid someone with installer experience to do the set it up and followed their guidance. I have done the mail setup steps that the installer required at the time. Setting up mailer provider accounts took the longest with multiple multi-day steps. I …

Really? You don’t even need email to bootstrap the admin account?

You would need to do that via the console, it would be a very tricky job, but doable I guess.

So, FWIW, while I fought with the email setup myself , I ended up editing the Ruby code in the container to output the mail msg that was to be sent to the administrator. It contained the activation URL. Why not print the activation URL to the container’s standard output? This way a person who didn’…

Run Discourse without email?

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Falco (Falco) February 10, 2021, 2:07am 9

An admin can use Create Admin Account from Console to bypass the email need.

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