# Email not sending after update **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-sending-after-update/169411 **Category:** Self-hosting **Tags:** email **Created:** [November 6, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-sending-after-update/169411 "2020-11-06T08:51:29Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S) #### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-sending-after-update/169411/3 "2020-11-06T12:09:34Z")
(You might need to wait for the world to turn a bit more to get some help…) All I know is that there can be a difference between what your host can do and what the processes in your container can do. How did you run your SMTP test - inside the container, or outside? I also know there’s a checklist somewhere for email trouble… maybe this thread: > [@Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-email-on-a-new-discourse-install/16326): > > You just installed Discourse via [the install guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL.md), but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install. cry Let’s troubleshootize! Try the doctor woman_health_workerIf you run ./discourse-doctor it will check several ways that your mail configuration might be broken, and offer advice. Try that first. Did you enter email settings correctly? The simplest way is to run ./discourse-setup again. Did you enter everything correctly? B… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-sending-after-update/169411)._