# Enable email settings from the interface

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-email-settings-from-the-interface/286408
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [November 23, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-email-settings-from-the-interface/286408 "2023-11-23T08:39:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![peyrusse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@peyrusse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peyrusse)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-email-settings-from-the-interface/286408/1 "2023-11-23T08:39:06Z")

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Hello,

This is quite annoying to edit the app.yml file to edit email settings and the rebuild the app.

We already have a email settings screen that displays the information, what if we could update the information directly from this screen ?

Regards.

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### Author: ![Lhc\_fl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lhc_fl/32/268115_2.png) [@Lhc\_fl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lhc_fl)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-email-settings-from-the-interface/286408/2 "2023-11-24T06:45:02Z")

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Hi, this question seems to have been answered before

> [@Why not move SMTP settings from app.yml to website admin settings?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-move-smtp-settings-from-app-yml-to-website-admin-settings/221405/2):
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> Official reasoning may be much more sensible that mine but what I think is that SMTP is kept in the yml file because email is critical to discourse. You can not enter discourse as an admin without a valid email verification. Letting anyone register without any type of email verification is a risk in itself.
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> Also, people generally don’t change their SMTP settings very often once they have been set. I am an admin to sites running for over 8 years with no change to SMTP settings.