How Do I Set Up the E-Mail SMTP Server Required for Discourse?

[Can]

Hello, I am new to discourse. So forgive me if my questions are simple.
I rented a cloud from Hetzner. I will start Ubuntu installation and discourse installation but I don’t know how to set smtp email settings on the server. Is there any instruction how to set email settings?

[Lilly (Lillian)]

You should be able to find all the info you need here - the documentation category will have links for email help (see docs sidebar).

Email delivery configuration checklist

Email deliverability is complicated. Here are a few important things you should check first: Be sure to set the DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL: correctly in your app.yml file. The domain specified in the “from” address of the emails you send is the domain your email will be validated against. Know how to view the raw source of the email in your mail client, so you can examine email headers for important clues. In Gmail, it is the “show original” option in the drop-down menu at the top right …

Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install

You just installed Discourse via the install guide, but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install. Let’s troubleshootize! Try the doctor If you run ./discourse-doctor it will check several ways that your mail configuration might be broken, and offer advice. Try that first. Did you enter email settings correctly? The simplest way is to run ./discourse-setup again. Did you enter everything correctly? B…

[Can]

I started service from brevo. I can’t do dns record operation from domain records. If I do, I will go to setup and other settings. There is actually a process that seems simple but very complicated. If I cannot do dns record and mail forwarding, I will have problems after installation. Is it unreasonable to make SMTP settings after discourse installation?

[Lilly (Lillian)]

i don’t know anything about brevo but if you use the search feature you can find topics about it

Discourse notification e-mail sending with Brevo(Sendinblue)

These are the official guides from Brevo: Fairly simple process to set DKIM, DMARC and DNS records for mail sub-domain to authenticate mail and sender.

are you doing a standard install?

[Can]

I’m trying to do a standard installation, I’m following the instructions, but I can’t get it to work, it’s taken me hours. It’s not for the casual user.

[Sidi_Codet (Olajuwon)]

Hi @Can, could you please share your email configuration for a more traceable solution?

[Can]

Except for email configuration
After ./discourse-setup command
I get the error -bash: ./discourse-setup:No such file or directory.

[Sidi_Codet (Olajuwon)]

@Can looks like the ./discourse-setup command isn’t showing up because the Discourse Docker repo might not have been set up right. Try this:

1. Run sudo -s to switch to root.
2. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse
   

3. Go to the directory:

   cd /var/discourse
   

4. Set permissions (just in case):

   chmod 700 containers
   

Once you’re in /var/discourse, you should be able to run ./discourse-setup.

Give that a shot one more time and it should be working fine.

[Can]

@Sidi_Codet Thank you, I will try again. Do you know of any video tutorials?