# Email just refuses to work

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-just-refuses-to-work/65074>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [6월 24, 2017, 11:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-just-refuses-to-work/65074 "2017-06-24T23:27:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [6월 24, 2017, 11:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-just-refuses-to-work/65074/2 "2017-06-24T23:30:56Z")

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My guess is that the SMTP server won’t allow you to send from your Digital Ocean server and instead wants you to connect from wherever cPanel is running.

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