I’m at a loss. I’m using Outlook as the mail system for my discourse setup which is self-hosted. Doctor keeps saying its an auth issue, however, when I test the SMTP through another service just to see if the settings are valid, it passes, so clearly something going on with Discourse on my end. Can …

Hey brad, welcome! I think this guide might help you: [image] Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install Self-Hosting You just installed Discourse via the install guide , but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin …

Do you mean outlook.com ? I think it will block your e-mails very soon as it is not made for sending this kind of e-mails. Same for Gmail. You need to use some of the professional SMTP services (Sendgrid, Mailgun, etc.).

If your STMP configuration is working for others clients, it is most probably a problem in the Discourse SMTP setup, not an Outlook issue. Please make sure STARTTLS, method of authentication and the port match the settings in Outlook. Please check Discourse logs for any detailed error.

Outlook SMTP Not Working

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Arkshine January 25, 2025, 11:46pm 2

Hey brad, welcome!

I think this guide might help you:

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