I started running a Discourse instance in December 2024, and we’re one of those quite some that have trouble with GMail.
Users trying to create an account with a GMail address will never receive an email from our instance. No, also not in spam folder. I extensively read meta.discourse and understand that the probable reason is that we don’t have a valid DKIM signature for discourse.ourdomain.org, only for ourdomain.org.
I tried with Discourse Another SMTP - #10 by Monikas, but didn’t get it working and never got a reply on how to exactly configure it.
On searching again, I started configuring Configure Google login for Discourse, but then realized that these users will still never receive emails from us, it would only help them authenticate.
As I don’t feel competent to configure DKIM and stuff for our discourse subdomain, I wonder if it would be an issue to send mails from discourse@ourdomain.org instead of noreply@discourse.ourdomain.org. Or is there any strong argument for including this subdomain in outgoing e-mails?
Thanks in advance!