# Not Receiving Admin Verification Email After Setup
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-admin-verification-email-after-setup/371134
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 21, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-admin-verification-email-after-setup/371134 "2025-06-21T08:41:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Nicca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nicca)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-admin-verification-email-after-setup/371134/1 "2025-06-21T08:41:46Z")
Hi,
I’ve just finished installing my self-hosted Discourse forum, but I’m not receiving the admin account verification email. Can someone take a quick look at my SMTP settings and let me know if anything seems off or if there’s something I should change?
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-admin-verification-email-after-setup/371134/2 "2025-06-21T08:55:40Z")
Welcome to Discourse Nicca 🎉 :discourse:
Will this topic help at all?
> [@Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshoot-email-on-a-new-discourse-install/16326):
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> You just installed Discourse via [the install guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL.md), but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install. cry Let’s troubleshootize! Try the doctor woman_health_workerIf you run ./discourse-doctor it will check several ways that your mail configuration might be broken, and offer advice. Try that first. Did you enter email settings correctly? The simplest way is to run ./discourse-setup again. Did you enter everything correctly? B…
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-admin-verification-email-after-setup/371134/3 "2025-06-21T15:18:35Z")
Hello and welcome @Nicca 🙂
Just to add, there’s been a spate of ~~Mailgun~~ \[1\] Digital Ocean blocking ports as some kind of anti-spam initiative or some such, so you may need to get in touch with them to unblock it if that’s the case.
Though I think changing the `smtp port` to 2525 could also work as an alternative - re: [Email not working on my Discourse site - #10 by pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-working-on-my-discourse-site/361629/10)
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1. :derp:
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-admin-verification-email-after-setup/371134/4 "2025-06-21T15:42:20Z")
See [Troubleshooting Outgoing Email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-outgoing-email/271484)
But switching to port 2525 is a good first step. Digital ocean is blocking outgoing smtp ports but default.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-admin-verification-email-after-setup/371134/5 "2025-06-21T21:57:11Z")
> [@Nicca](#):
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> Thanks in advance
In your pic your SMTP USERNANE appears to be the same as notification email address.
Depending on your SMTP provider this is often your SMTP sign up email. At least it is on [www.brevo.com](http://www.brevo.com)
The password should be redacted. But is that the SMTP password or an API key?