I have setup a digitalocean discourse docker instance. Setup went just smooth, however… I can’t seem to get the account creation working because I don’t get a verification email.
A question, perhaps very obvious to many, but sometimes the simple things are the ones that go unnoticed.
Have you already added within Digital Ocean (DO), the domain name (talk.example.com) and adjusted the firewall to open the necessary port? Also, do not forget that within the firewall you must add the droplet where you installed “discourse” .
So what I did is, I created the droplet and created a new A record at my domain provider and added the ip of my droplet.
Adding a domain to my droplet is necessary for this email setup? If so, can you guide me a little, where exactly can I add the domain for example? And what needs to be added to the firewall.
I am not that experienced with this kind of stuff.
Thanks anyway!
Don’t worry, I’ll try to guide you as best as possible, I’m not an expert on the subject, but so far my email works without problems, personally I use “sendiblue”, because it was the only one that allowed me to use an account without going through filters that others put.
In short, the section that I mention is in “networking”.
Personally, it was necessary for me to add and manage the domain name from “DO”, since Sendinblue asked me to add some dns values to verify domain ownership, just like google for user registration.
Another thing. I tried sending a test mail via the admin cp, and it gave me this
I entered my Google Mail as recipient to test. So the email wasn’t sent, as it seems. This is weird.
So I can’t send emails. Which would also explains, why I cannot receive the activation mail.
