# Mail-Receiver Configuration: 403 Error on smtp\_should\_reject Endpoint

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mail-receiver-configuration-403-error-on-smtp-should-reject-endpoint/353303
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** mail-receiver
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mail-receiver-configuration-403-error-on-smtp-should-reject-endpoint/353303 "2025-02-20T11:24:27Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mail-receiver-configuration-403-error-on-smtp-should-reject-endpoint/353303/2 "2025-02-20T11:46:37Z")

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Is your API Key’s scope granular ou global (though if you didn’t have the tight permissions I suppose the error message would be different, like `unauthorized`… 🤔 ?

> [@Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-direct-delivery-incoming-email-for-self-hosted-sites-with-mail-receiver/49487/483):
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> There should be a line in the logs soon before that that starts “Failed to GET smtp\_should\_reject answer” that will tell you more about what failed and why, and that should correlate with an error message of some sort in the Discourse logs.

Is there more information in your logs?

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