Hello, I’m setting up a self-hosted Discourse for a small community, and using a subdomain provided by Discourse i.e. [mydomain].discourse.diy I’ve run into a problem using Brevo as my email provider. Brevo is receiving the emails sent by Discourse but not sending them, with error message: “Sen…

Thanks for the quick answer. Is it possible to use my personal email address as the sender until I set up a new domain?

[image] ComradeDog: Is it possible to use my personal email address as the sender until I set up a new domain? Depends on who is your personal email provider.

Yep, my protonmail account is not accepted by Brevo. The whole domain is blocked. Looks like I’ll be setting up my own domain a little earlier. Thanks.

How to authenticate email domain for free discourse subdomain?

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Falco (Falco) February 18, 2026, 2:33am 2

In this case you will need to use a domain under your control.

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How to authenticate email domain for free discourse subdomain?

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