# Ist die Verwendung von Mailgun erforderlich?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [9. Oktober 2018 um 17:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155 "2018-10-09T17:40:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [10. Oktober 2018 um 13:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/21 "2018-10-10T13:09:20Z")
That’s the correct way to implement email. The user here was attempting to use the gsuite SMTP relay to send email from their discourse instance, which is explicitly prohibited by Google. Previously they tried to use a third party relay to send email from the gsuite domain rather than a subdomain, which would prevent gsuite from receiving verification emails.
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### Author:  [@Pratik\_Sinha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pratik_Sinha)
#### Post date: [10. Oktober 2018 um 16:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/22 "2018-10-10T16:36:39Z")
I am creating a new droplet
Please give step by step guide on how to configure mailgun directly not gsuite
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [10. Oktober 2018 um 16:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/23 "2018-10-10T16:39:46Z")
Please refer to their documentation on [how to verify your domain](https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/quickstart-sending.html#verify-your-domain).
There’s no need to tag me directly.
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### Author:  [@Pratik\_Sinha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pratik_Sinha)
#### Post date: [10. Oktober 2018 um 16:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/24 "2018-10-10T16:41:26Z")
Ok I will do that
But clarify the subdomain thing please vividly
Whether to use domain and subdomain or how to create subdomain?
I am confused
Please give some guidance on this
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [10. Oktober 2018 um 16:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/25 "2018-10-10T16:44:30Z")
If you want to use your domain for both email and Discourse then set up a subdomain for Discourse. I would recommend doing that anyhow in case your needs change in the future.
In which case use your root domain (@) for gsuite and add MX records to a subdomain for Mailgun.
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### Author:  [@Pratik\_Sinha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pratik_Sinha)
#### Post date: [10. Oktober 2018 um 17:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/26 "2018-10-10T17:01:42Z")
Actually,
I don’t want to use gsuite
Only mailgun
How to create subdomain
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### Author:  [@Seshank\_K](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seshank_K)
#### Post date: [11. Oktober 2018 um 15:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/27 "2018-10-11T15:35:34Z")
Hey @vitorl, would love if you could elaborate on what you did here. Please let me know. This could be a game changer. And please I’m a big big newbie to web development and programming altogether.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [11. Oktober 2018 um 16:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/28 "2018-10-11T16:00:19Z")
He’s talking about doing it the way I outlined above, it’s the same approach.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [1. Juli 2021 um 04:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/29 "2021-07-01T04:27:51Z")
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### Author:  [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [1. Juli 2021 um 04:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-necessary-to-use-mailgun/99155/30 "2021-07-01T04:31:26Z")
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