# New setup - am not receiving admin email

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [August 12, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-setup-am-not-receiving-admin-email/32006 "2015-08-12T03:41:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-setup-am-not-receiving-admin-email/32006/1 "2015-08-12T03:41:16Z")

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I’ve set up discourse on digitalocean server with ubuntu - it all installed fine.

I have my own smtp server that sends out emails fine from various apps. I can telnet into it without a problem on port 25 from any location including the discourse server.

When I try to login or register or rebuilt discourse I don’t seem to receive any emails.When trying to create a new user I can’t as the system seems to hang verifying my user id. Tried using mandrill but it wants apis as password which I can’t seem to find on their site.

Not sure how to move forward - the logs don’t seem to show any errors or problems. Am pretty stuck.

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