# Issues with sending initial verification email on DigitalOcean **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Tags:** email\ **Created:** [Setembro 30, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-sending-initial-verification-email-on-digitalocean/33896 "2015-09-30T01:08:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![jennjenn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jennjenn/32/116780_2.png) [@jennjenn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jennjenn)\ **Post date:** [Setembro 30, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-sending-initial-verification-email-on-digitalocean/33896/1 "2015-09-30T01:08:49Z")
This is less of an issue and more of a summary of what I just spent the last 2 hours trying to debug - hopefully it’ll save you some time! I followed the instructions to a T for installing Discourse on DO. Booted it up and tried to set up my admin account. Fail. The verification email never went through. I went through alllllll of the troubleshooting documentation and eventually contacted DO support to see if I was being blocked somehow. Nothing. If your emails aren’t going thru on DO (via Mandrill specifically, not sure if this is true for others): If you set up your app.yml using an IP as your host instead of a domain, that’s the root of your issue. The notification email is coming from noreply@IPaddress which DigitalOcean or Mandrill or someone in between views as no bueno. - Set up a second admin account thru the CLI - Log into Discourse and go to the admin panel. - Change your notification email to a non-IP-based email account (preferably the one you have connected with Mandrill) - Save that - Log out of your second account and regenerate the verification email for that first account. - Success Hope that helps! --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-sending-initial-verification-email-on-digitalocean/33896)._