# Issues with sending initial verification email on DigitalOcean

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-sending-initial-verification-email-on-digitalocean/33896>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [September 30, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-sending-initial-verification-email-on-digitalocean/33896 "2015-09-30T01:08:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-sending-initial-verification-email-on-digitalocean/33896/2 "2015-09-30T01:58:30Z")

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Others have discovered this as well. We should block bootstrap if an IP address is set up as the mailing address, or at least put a comment to that effect in `app.yml` and the cloud install doc.

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