# How to set no user/pass for smtp in discourse setup?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-no-user-pass-for-smtp-in-discourse-setup/58900>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 11, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-no-user-pass-for-smtp-in-discourse-setup/58900 "2017-03-11T21:55:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-no-user-pass-for-smtp-in-discourse-setup/58900/1 "2017-03-11T21:55:27Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Setting up DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_ADDRESS: 'localhost'?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-smtp-address-localhost/16027):

I’m moving a forum, and wanted to try out the `./discourse-setup` script.

SMTP is allowed via whitelisting an IP address, so no user/pass is needed.

I can’t guess what to enter to skip these settings.

I tried `""` but that left me with

```plaintext
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: ""
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: """"
  # DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true # (optional, default true)

```

What I need is:

```plaintext
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: user@example.com # (optional)
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: pa$$word # (optional)
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: false # (optional, default true)

```

Do we want to add support for disabling user/pass in the quick setup?

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