# I set up Discourse, activated my account email, why am I still constantly receiving account activation emails every so often? How to configure to solve this bug **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bug/384684 **Category:** Support **Tags:** email **Created:** [October 4, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bug/384684 "2025-10-04T05:15:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 16
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [October 6, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bug/384684/16 "2025-10-06T17:21:46Z")
Ok that’s your issue! Search that exact error here and you get: > [@I dont know whats wrong with the SMTP service](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-dont-know-whats-wrong-with-the-smtp-service/251454): > > I use the service of [mailgun.com](http://mailgun.com) to send mail, but the SMTP I set up according to the tutorial doesn’t work.I can’t even finish registering as an administrator the log in shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log Started GET "/finish-installation/register" for 54.151.175.32 at 2023-01-11 18:37:43 +0000 Processing by FinishInstallationController#register as HTML Rendered finish\_installation/register.html.erb within layouts/finish\_installation (Duration: 8.2ms | Allocations: 750) Rendered … Might help. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bug/384684)._