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 dropl…

Hey. Sorry you’re having trouble with the image. What service are you using for SMTP? Our testing was done primarily with mandrill. Also, are you otherwise able to send email messages from droplets on your account? If you’re not sure, I’d recommend opening a ticket with our support team. Some…

Warning, we get so many email support requests – there are many, many, many ways to screw up your SMTP settings so that email doesn’t work. I recommend you strictly follow our email troubleshooting document in the howto section here. Worst case scenario, buy a $99 install from us and we’ll set it u…

Not receiving initial admin email verification. Install issue?

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zogstrip October 13, 2015, 7:04am 2

I think it’s a Digital Ocean issue. @ryan2 any idea what’s wrong here?

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Not receiving initial admin email verification. Install issue?

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