# Job exception: wrong authentication type none

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/job-exception-wrong-authentication-type-none/48516>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 11, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/job-exception-wrong-authentication-type-none/48516 "2016-08-11T17:33:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_G](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dan_g/32/114732_2.png) [@Dan\_G](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dan_G)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/job-exception-wrong-authentication-type-none/48516/1 "2016-08-11T17:33:30Z")

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I have the error in the title of this post when Discourse tries to send emails (so I couldn’t complete my initial setup). I do not want discourse to try to authenticate at all against the SMTP service so I set this setting in my app.yml:

```
DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: none

```

Why is it still trying to authenticate?

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