How to disable SMTP during installation?

[NateDhaliwal]

You can now install Discourse without the need of email:

@Falco

SMTP is now optional

As @codinghorror once put it:

@codinghorror

What can I say? Email is the hardest problem in computer science.

To alleviate this, we’ve made SMTP optional. The new installer allows you to skip SMTP setup entirely by relying on Discourse ID for login.

SMTP setup was always the number one issue people setting up Discourse for the first time struggled with, so we are excited to finally remove this hurdle in our install.