# How to leave a field empty while setting up discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-leave-a-field-empty-while-setting-up-discourse/99095>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [October 9, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-leave-a-field-empty-while-setting-up-discourse/99095 "2018-10-09T12:42:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-leave-a-field-empty-while-setting-up-discourse/99095/2 "2018-10-09T13:04:20Z")

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If you don’t enter anything in the field the value in the` []` is used.

Please note that gmail is not supported for outbound SMTP. Doing so is against Google’s terms of service and you will very quickly hit rate limits.

Please review the email setup guide: [discourse/docs/INSTALL-email.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-email.md)

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