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

[image] abeen: DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: “re_my password here” this is probably the main issue causing you problems: you are using curly quotes. YML files do not like this and usually break. you need to use single or double straight quotes like 'password' or "password" [image] abeen: DI…

[image] Lilly: while Resend supports this and it should work, the standard is 587 But DigitalOcean has blocked 587, and that’s why 2525 is used.

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. [image] 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 lik…

[image] 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.

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Lilly (Lillian ) May 28, 2026, 12:57am 22

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