# How to create my own SMTP server for discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-my-own-smtp-server-for-discourse/130339
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 6, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-my-own-smtp-server-for-discourse/130339 "2019-10-06T13:31:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Brajmohan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brajmohan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-my-own-smtp-server-for-discourse/130339/1 "2019-10-06T13:31:39Z")
I know about Mailgun, Sendgrid and many more third-party SMTP mail servers for Discourse. But I want to have my own SMTP server so that all E-mail functionality will work like registering Admin account and getting emails for new Sign Up, Forgot Password, etc I don’t want a third party e-mail SMTP.
Can you please guide me on how to set up my own e-mail SMTP for discourse in the same server where discourse is installed?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Dannii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dannii)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-my-own-smtp-server-for-discourse/130339/2 "2019-10-06T15:08:59Z")
This is an option
> [@Mail-in-a-Box email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mail-in-a-box-email/63443):
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> I used Mail-in-a-Box email during setup to use with Discourse. Mail-in-a-Box is an automatic self hosted email system where you run the script on a new Ubuntu 14.04 box with a dedicated domain name for email and it sets up everything for you and all you need to do is create email accounts and update the software regularly. I recommend it for managing your own email and it works for setting up an account for use with websites. I made [server@r3df0x.net](mailto:server@r3df0x.net) and I use that to send email from websites…
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### Author:  [@SouperC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SouperC)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-my-own-smtp-server-for-discourse/130339/3 "2019-10-06T19:37:02Z")
Keep in mind deliverability of emails will likely suffer if you roll your own email server.
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### Author:  [@danb35](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danb35)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-my-own-smtp-server-for-discourse/130339/4 "2019-10-06T23:52:45Z")
> [@Brajmohan\_Kumar](#):
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> so that all E-mail functionality will work like registering Admin account and getting emails for new Sign Up, Forgot Password, etc
Why do you think you need to run your own server for any of this to work? If you just want to set up your own SMTP server, go for it, but I haven’t found it necessary for any of these things to work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-my-own-smtp-server-for-discourse/130339/5 "2023-06-06T12:34:10Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-my-own-smtp-server-for-discourse/130339/6 "2023-07-06T12:34:28Z")
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