# Discourse + DigitalOcean + Mailjet setup **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-digitalocean-mailjet-setup/287773 **Category:** Self-hosting **Tags:** email **Created:** [December 6, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-digitalocean-mailjet-setup/287773 "2023-12-06T18:09:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 33
### Author: ![pearsonified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pearsonified/32/128397_2.png) [@pearsonified](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pearsonified) #### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-digitalocean-mailjet-setup/287773/33 "2023-12-13T16:00:55Z")
But if I can’t define a new email address (like [x@mydomain.com](mailto:x@mydomain.com)), then how can I ever complete this? I can use a non-domain email address, but Discourse will only send transactional emails from domain-based addresses (if my understanding of the situation is correct). **For clarity:** I have indeed specified a domain-based email address as the sender (within Discourse, and specifically within the `app.yml` file or whatever it is), but [1] I have not added this as a Sender Address in Mailjet because my understanding is Sender Addresses are for any addresses that do NOT share the same domain, and [2] I cannot create a domain-based email address because I am not running a mail server (the entire point of Mailjet, as I understand it at least, is to avoid having to set up and run your own mail server, which would be extremely unreliable for deliverability). --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-digitalocean-mailjet-setup/287773)._