# New Discourse Instance + SMTP

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-discourse-instance-smtp/95866
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [August 28, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-discourse-instance-smtp/95866 "2018-08-28T21:13:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![joshyates1980](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joshyates1980/32/109818_2.png) [@joshyates1980](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshyates1980)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-discourse-instance-smtp/95866/21 "2018-10-19T01:53:29Z")

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@blake completed my new instance today for my hobby project and your walk through for Azure Discourse installation was excellent. Also, thanks for the mention of Azure storage plugin on the last step. I included that in my fresh install. Great work Discourse team.

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### Author: ![eri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eri/32/127696_2.png) [@eri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eri)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-discourse-instance-smtp/95866/22 "2018-12-26T23:47:50Z")

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i have `DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true` but discourse trying send without tls. How to fix it?

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