# ./discourse-setup puts SMTP username at start of SMTP password

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**Tags:** install\
**Created:** [September 5, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-puts-smtp-username-at-start-of-smtp-password/381710 "2025-09-05T12:37:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-puts-smtp-username-at-start-of-smtp-password/381710/3 "2025-09-15T09:56:20Z")

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Right. That’s a good bet.

@Ethsim2 if you change the password to something with only numbers and letters and not the same as part of the username so you have this issue?

Can you share the values you are using?

I’ll try to take a look later today.

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