# Not receiving initial admin email verification. Install issue?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-initial-admin-email-verification-install-issue/34439>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [October 13, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-initial-admin-email-verification-install-issue/34439 "2015-10-13T05:33:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ron\_jeremy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ron_jeremy/32/56621_2.png) [@ron\_jeremy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ron_jeremy)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-initial-admin-email-verification-install-issue/34439/1 "2015-10-13T05:33:12Z")

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Totally new at this stuff, but have been wanting to test Discourse for a while now. Today I finally pulled the trigger and got myself an account at Digital Ocean. I installed a Discourse droplet but am not receiving the email verification for the admin account to login.

I have ‘destroyed’ the droplet and re-installed Discourse about 7 - 10 times today, each time trying different settings for the email setup, but nothing has worked. I have tried using both the SSL and non-SSL server and port settings, but neither have worked. I have tried different hostnames, too.

Am I supposed to install a mail server on Ubuntu?

Just in case I am doing something wrong, here’s how I’m installing Discourse:

- New droplet
- Hostname “ **forum** ” (without the quotes), also used [forum.domainname.com](http://forum.domainname.com), and [test.domainname.com](http://test.domainname.com), among others.
- $20 plan, Toronto server
- Select Image \> Applications \> Discourse
- Available Settings: Backups & IPV6

Thoughts?

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