I will be setting up a Discourse forum on a VPS and would like to have notification, password reset emails etc. set up. Does the administrator email address need to be the same domain as the discourse forum domain? And is this the email I enter when i do the officially supported installation? I…

[image] forummaster: Does the administrator email address need to be the same domain as the discourse forum domain? No, administrator e-mail address doesn’t need to be the same domain as the discourse site. [image] forummaster: If I use a smtp email service like Mailgun, will this confli…

[image] Architect: There can be a conflict with that, recently tried to do this same thing but didn’t work and got notification of DNS problem with new records, so deleted those to remove the conflict. Thank you. Since I won’t be able to use emails from the forum domain, is my only option to …

To be safe probably only using only one e-mail service per domain makes sense to avoid any possible conflict, however I’m not an expert about all the options there may be some way to make a domain work with multiple e-mail services. SMTP sending is supported with protonmail I have gotten that to wo…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Use a service like mailgun and use your forum subdomain for the mail sending address, not your bare domain name. Ok, thanks. So I would add a TXT record for forum.domain.com in the DNS settings and in a service like Mailgun have the notification emails sent from notifica…

This guide goes through all the steps for TXT, MX, and CNAME records: Domain Verification Setup Guide – Mailgun Help Center [image] Domain Verification Setup Guide Overview Our aim with this step-by-step guide will walk you through how to add and verify a domain in Mailgun. Verifying …

This article might help… [image] Can I use the same domain for both Mailgun and Google Apps (or another email... Overview For sending - yes. For receiving - no. You can only use one email server to receive messages for a given domain name. When it's a domain configured in your Mailgun a…

This article says that you can’t do both, but then it says that you can. I’m even more confused now after reading it 5 times.

Lol was also confused by that, seems is contradictory except it says you can configure domain to work with a second e-mail service IF configured with a subdomain: Excerpt: If you’ve got incoming emails setup elsewhere for your root domain, we recommend using a subdomain in your Mailgun account and…

Perhaps if I write out here exactly what I want to do, it could help clarify. The domain I wish to use for the Discourse forum is domain.com , and I have Protonmail already configured to send and receive emails from domain.com , so according to this article I can’t use Mailgun unless I only set up …

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Use a service like mailgun and use your forum subdomain for the mail sending address, not your bare domain name. Then there will be no conflict.

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