# Custom domain email with discourse DO setup

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-domain-email-with-discourse-do-setup/55670
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 12, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-domain-email-with-discourse-do-setup/55670 "2017-01-12T21:01:51Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-domain-email-with-discourse-do-setup/55670/3 "2017-01-12T21:58:19Z")

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If I understand correctly, Pepipost is delivering mail just fine, but you want to change your incoming mail.

One solution for incoming mail is

> [@Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver](https://meta.discourse.org/t/straightforward-direct-delivery-incoming-mail/49487):
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> Discourse is all about enabling civilized discussion. While plenty of people like a web interface, e-mail is still the “hub” of many people’s online lives. That’s why sending e-mail is so important, and when you’re sending e-mail, you really want to be able to receive it, too. There are several reasons why: If e-mails “bounce” (they can’t be delivered for some reason), you need to know about that. Repeatedly sending e-mails that bounce will get your e-mails flagged as spam. Receiving e-ma…

Another is to set up another Gmail account just for Discourse and then configure Mailgun to receive and forward the email to the gmail account (that’s on the Routes page).

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