I have been through many pages of this official discourse forum and I have some doubts which need to be cleared. Please help me out. Why Discourse official do not recommend AWS SES (SIMPLE EMAIL SERVICE) even it is very cheap considered to other SMTP providers. Are they not good enough? More emai…

So there is a tutorial for that. [image] Install Discourse on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Lightsail, SES, and Route 53 Sysadmins information_source This topic covers how to install Discourse using the official install instructions using AWS services for the …

[image] Lakshya: If possible please add tutorials for various hosting providers to host discourse. I believe the reason for the recommendation of DigitalOcean in the standard install is the relative simplicity. The goal is to make the process as straightforward as possible so that people can …

[image] Lakshya: Why Discourse official do not recommend AWS SES (SIMPLE EMAIL SERVICE) even it is very cheap considered to other SMTP providers. Because it is pretty hard to configure compared to other SMTP providers. People who need help selecting what mail service to use are not likely to …

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Because it is pretty hard to configure compared to other SMTP providers. People who need help selecting what mail service to use are not likely to be able to figure out how to get SES to work. Having moved out from Mailgun to SES and not knowing much about email stuff… I…

Thanks, @Canapin . Then I’m going to double-down on my stance that “if you want to use SES to send mail then Somewhere Else is where to go to figure that out.” If you can figure it out, it’ll work just fine, but Stack Overflow or anywhere else is who to ask.

Yeh somehow it didn’t. That article is not for beginner, kind of messy. As my project is budget constraint so SES is perfect match. Can’t pay $10 for mail services like mailgun sendingrid etc. :confused: (my bad). If possible make one step by step tutorial for AWS Lightsail+SES it will help alot, …

[image] Lakshya: Can’t pay $10 for mail services like mailgun sendingrid The flex plan is $1/1000 messages: https://help.mailgun.com/hc/en-us/articles/203068914-What-Are-the-Differences-Between-the-Free-and-Flex-Plans- [image] Lakshya: That article is not for beginner, kind of messy. N…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: find it somewhere else thx for the help mate.

To be fair Jay is right. Discourse needs a standard set of SMTP credentials and meta is about providing support primarily for Discourse, not third party mail platforms. If you choose a more complicated service you also assume any additional complexity created by that choice.

Just to be crystal clear, from the Discourse point of view, all you need to do is to configure these variables on your app.yml: DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: email-smtp.AWS_REGION.amazonaws.com DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587 DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: USERNAME_PROVIDED_BY_SES DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: PASSWORD_P…

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) December 12, 2022, 4:58pm 2

So there is a tutorial for that.

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