EDIT: Now at SMTP, how do I put Gmail as the SMTP, since I use Gmail alot
@Stephen Can’t reply anymore. It says I have to add a payment method. Someone who runs a discourse manually accepts members. How do I set it up so I can manually accept members?
See how far you can get by following the guide now, the cloud install guide is excellent and will give you a good measure of whether this is something you’re going to want to maintain going forward.
Re Gmail I would look into a free mailgun account. It will let you send email from your new domain and is going to be much easier to maintain.