So this will be pretty hard and unusable to use a .tk (free domain)?
I’m not speaking on behalf of anyone but the free domain extensions like .tk .co.nr, .co.vu are often seen being used by wrongdoers. I’ve never been able to send an email that may have delivered successfully through my .tk domain which I earlier used for testing purposes. It can be that the email providers have blocked most common free domain extension for some reason, more details can only be provided by their support as overall, it looks like everything is working fine except email and that is dependent on 3rd party. I may have advised you to use a local postfix server or something but that isn’t the official way to install discourse and requires some expertise.
the best that I can suggest is that you try installing discourse on a proper FQDN and if this issue still persists, contacting your hosting provider and then email provider to diagnose the issue.
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Is there any email servers that allow free domains (.tk, .cf)? Talked to Elastice they didnt.
Probably not. If there were, they’d be used by spammers, and then anyone who delivered them would look like a spammer.
If you don’t want to purchase a domain name, then you’d need to get hosting from someone who’ll provide one for you.
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For example if my friend have a domain with .com, .org, .me is it just for him to point his DNS to my Ip for the forum?
Not really, You will still have to verify that domain with the email service, update your email configuration and rebuild your container to resolve that domain.
But I did make a forum for a guy before cause he had a domain with .city before but I didnt need to do all this with elasticemail, just needed to write in the STPM things and then it worked.
Theoretically, mail servers send such email with their own signature (You’d always see via elasticemail.com) for those with unverified but legit domains. This goes good for first few months and then they ask you to verify domain after a certain period of time. I don’t know much about elasticemail as I’m not a very active user so maybe they don’t have this limitation but you still would need to rebuild the container with the new hostname and smtp for this to work.
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Ok, thanks for the help! Also thanks for all responses from everyone.
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