# Email no longer works
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-no-longer-works/29369
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-no-longer-works/29369 "2015-05-28T14:30:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ankh2054](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ankh2054)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-no-longer-works/29369/1 "2015-05-28T14:30:42Z")
Hi all,
Im stuck in that my discourse will not send email. I bootstrapped my discourse, configured the main account using developer email and received the email. I started to import my old phpbb, but realised I needed to prune some user so I had to start over.
**My steps:**
- delete /shared/\* & stopped the docker container.
- rebuild using ./launcher bootstrap app
- tried to register using the developers email, but this time I’m not getting any email.
- ./launcher enter app and tested SMTP - telnet [smart.server.com](http://smart.server.com) (as used in app,ml) and successfully received the email.
**UPDATE**
The problem was due to my importing loads of posts from a older phpbb3 forum. Upon app rebuild, the `discourse/lib/tasks/posts.rake` would run and id had to download 10000’s of images from the web to replace embedded image links. This seems to take priority over registration emails/
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### Author:  [@ankh2054](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ankh2054)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-no-longer-works/29369/2 "2015-05-28T15:07:29Z")
Ive alsed tried to add yahoo as my SMTP and same problem. How weird…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-no-longer-works/29369/3 "2015-05-28T19:01:34Z")
See the email troubleshooting guide. We also strongly recommend you use Mandrill for mail, which is free for up to 12k sends per month.
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### Author:  [@ankh2054](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ankh2054)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2015, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-no-longer-works/29369/4 "2015-05-29T09:23:43Z")
thanks Jeff,
I configured mandrill in the end, but I had the same issue. Not sure why this matters, but this could it working.
I confirmed app.yml, then ./launcher bootstrap app.
At this point it was still picking up the old email addresses, but the correct URL for the site…
I then ran ./launcher rebuild app and it picked up the new dev emails and I could receive emails.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-no-longer-works/29369/5 "2015-05-29T10:26:50Z")