# Email not working with SparkPost

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-working-with-sparkpost/42502
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [April 13, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-working-with-sparkpost/42502 "2016-04-13T14:34:16Z")
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### Author: ![richleland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richleland/32/121850_2.png) [@richleland](https://meta.discourse.org/u/richleland)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-working-with-sparkpost/42502/2 "2016-04-13T21:10:51Z")

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Hi - we’ve got a guide for setting up Discourse with SparkPost here:  
[https://support.sparkpost.com/customer/portal/articles/2340644-using-sparkpost-with-discourse](https://support.sparkpost.com/customer/portal/articles/2340644-using-sparkpost-with-discourse)

I responded to a similar thread over here and it looks like that user was able to get things set up using the guide:

> [@Using Discourse with SparkPost](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-with-sparkpost/36175):
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> I can’t get my Discourse installation to work with SparkPost. Let’s say my domain is [example.com](http://example.com). I have it registered and verified as a sending domain with SparkPost. The relevant part of my app.yml looks like this: DISCOURSE\_HOSTNAME: 'www.example.com' DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_ADDRESS: smtp.sparkpostmail.com DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_PORT: 587 DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_USER\_NAME: SMTP\_Injection DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_PASSWORD: (api key) Yet when I try to complete my Discourse setup by creating an admin account, I do not receive th…

Feel free to jump on our community Slack if you’d like as well - thanks for giving us a try!

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