Hi, starting a forum, completely new to discourse, hosted on DO, for some reason has issue with smtp or port issue. Now, wanted to find out if you have gone with google logins or social logins and no issue if local sign ups/logins is not in your forum

oh i forgot about DO lol. :woman_facepalming:t2: i moved off them awhile back. in my head i was thinking resend and hetzner. so yea use 2525 (i now recall switching that when i migrated too). edit: i fixed my post. thanks Jakee

Along with the excellent advice above, running a rake emails:test (see Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install ) to immediately show the error is probably going to help.

my site has crashed now. it is a new site with few members, not sure how to download my custom pages and members. don’t want to use smtp at all.

i’m sorry this is happening to you. yea your yml file is likely broken. post the whole thing here (without the email addresses and passwords). this really shouldn’t be this difficult to get up and running. just out of curiosity what size of droplet on Digitalocean are you using? have you been …

Hi, i have Basic / 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM / 50 GB Disk env: LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8 LANG: en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE: en_US.UTF-8 DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: dobato.au DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: ``myemail@outlook.com DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: ``smtp.resend.com DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: resend DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSW…

please read my previous post here carefully. your yml file is incorrect. [imagem] abeen: i have Basic / 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM / 50 GB Disk this should work for a non-busy forum. do you have a swap file at all? run free -h at the command line and post the output here. it should look something li…

[imagem] Lilly: uld look something like this (b curl: (52) Empty reply from server root@dobato:~# free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1.9Gi 201Mi 1.2Gi 4.0Mi 507Mi 1.6Gi Swap: 2.0Gi 0B …

how about discourse on amazon Lightsail, they have Amazon SES smpt email as well.

[imagem] abeen: “re_mypassword” @abeen Have you switched these to straight quotes? Try using these instead: "

i’ve got " ", double quotation mark

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Lilly (Lillian ) Maio 26, 2026, 10:30pm 14

Por favor, leia com atenção minha postagem anterior aqui. Seu arquivo yml está incorreto.

isso deve funcionar para um fórum não muito ativo. Você tem algum arquivo de swap? Execute free -h no terminal e poste a saída aqui.

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