Hello Discourse Support/Community, I have been struggling for several days to resolve an issue with outgoing emails from my Discourse instance. I am running Discourse in a Docker container on a Spaceship VPS (Phoenix, US). My mail provider is Spacemail (SMTP). Issue: Discourse cannot send email…

Persistent SMTP Timeout Issue with Spacemail on Discourse (VPS, Docker)

tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) September 21, 2025, 6:27pm 7

Sorry this has been such a struggle for you. Shouldn’t be so hard!

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