# Email doesn't work after fresh install
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** docker, email
**Created:** [October 24, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875 "2015-10-24T23:44:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Sunday\_T](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sunday_T)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/1 "2015-10-24T23:44:07Z")
I have 2 Digitalocean droplets.
1. contains: `dummydomain.com`
2. contains: `sub.dummydomain.com`
I verified both domains with my email provider. My app running on [domain.com](http://domain.com) sends email as expected however, discourse app that is in [sub.domain.com](http://sub.domain.com) doesn’t send any email and i cannot see any useful log info about email failure.
When I try to send test email I get; **There was a problem sending the test email. Please double-check your mail settings, verify that your host is not blocking mail connections, and try again.**
My mail settings are:
```
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtp.zoho.com
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: xx@.dummydomain.com
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: xxdummypassword
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true
DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: "login"
```
I have tried everthing I have seen in this community, DO community and Stackoverflow. Even from the answers to the questions I asked there about this issue. Feeling frustrated now and wonder if it will ever work.
I decided to manually set up the admin through terminal, however, I cannot set any kind of email including user sign up, test email or anything else in discourse.
Any clue that could help?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Sunday\_T](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sunday_T)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/2 "2015-10-28T05:43:39Z")
I fixed it by setting the email in the database itself using the rails console
```
rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email = 'email@here.com'"
```
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### Author:  [@ajoythomas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ajoythomas)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/3 "2015-12-18T18:04:36Z")
OMG!! Thank you sooo much for this! I think I installed (the 30 minute version) at least 25 times, tried every trick in the book to solve this email issue… not to mention any small change in the setting requires a rebuild. As much I love the interface and the UX and what not, boy o boy the installation is anything but a straightforward process. That one line of rails code solved my problem as well. So thanks for sharing that! 3 days of googling, going through this forum finally concludes!
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### Author:  [@hass](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hass)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/4 "2016-01-29T17:28:23Z")
Kindly help! How to open rails console??? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sunday\_T](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sunday_T)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/5 "2016-01-29T17:49:01Z")
Open rails console for discource by this command ./launcher enter app
int the console do the following,
rails c
rails r “SiteSetting.notification\_email = ‘email@here.com’”
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### Author:  [@hass](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hass)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/6 "2016-01-29T17:53:57Z")
Thank you so much for your quick reply! \<3 I’ll just try that now!!! 🙂 Hope this works! You’re a live saver!
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### Author:  [@hass](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hass)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/7 "2016-01-29T17:57:36Z")
Do we have to use the double quotes? Like below
rails r “SiteSetting.notification\_email = ‘email@here.com’”
OR like
rails r SiteSetting.notification\_email = ‘email@here.com’
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### Author:  [@Sunday\_T](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sunday_T)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/8 "2016-01-29T17:59:03Z")
like this. rails r "SiteSetting.notification\_email = ‘email@here.com’ "
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### Author:  [@hass](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hass)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/9 "2016-01-29T17:59:38Z")
OKEH 😌 Thank you so much!
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### Author:  [@hass](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hass)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/10 "2016-01-29T18:01:11Z")
Brother it gives this error that method R was not found…
Any idea? Would be really great ful!
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### Author:  [@Sunday\_T](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sunday_T)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/11 "2016-01-29T18:13:45Z")
are you using the docker standalone installation?
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### Author:  [@hass](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hass)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-doesnt-work-after-fresh-install/34875/12 "2016-01-29T18:15:12Z")
Brother I followed this default guide and installed it manually. [discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)
I have currently disabled emails.