# Setting Up Discourse using Gmail SMTP Settings
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [January 16, 2024, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749 "2024-01-16T08:07:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Dorcas\_Kagoya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dorcas_Kagoya)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749/1 "2024-01-16T08:07:06Z")
I recently created a droplet for discourse but is possible setup using my personal gmail account SMTP Settings and not use the email of my domain for which I created the droplet
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749/2 "2024-01-16T16:47:31Z")
> [@Dorcas\_Kagoya](#):
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> is possible setup using my personal gmail account SMTP Settings
It is difficult, at the very least, and a violation of their terms of service. There are some topics about using the paid-for Google mail (whatever it’s called this week).
Using something like mailgun (or similar) is what’s recommended. If you can figure out how to switch to the pay-as-you-go plan, it’s free for under something like 1K messages/month.
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### Author:  [@Dorcas\_Kagoya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dorcas_Kagoya)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749/3 "2024-01-23T12:28:21Z")
Hey @pfaffman we have a google workspace could it be possible to to setup discourse with a google workshop account and not use Mailgun.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749/4 "2024-01-23T13:58:26Z")
I don’t know, but last I looked, it looked like Google wouldn’t let you talk to their smtp servers.
It’s not something that I would choose to spend my time on.
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### Author:  [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749/5 "2024-02-06T22:21:59Z")
> [@Dorcas\_Kagoya](#):
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> is possible setup using my personal gmail account SMTP Settings
Yes you could, I had done that initially but ran into a problem very quickly. Note that gmail limits the number of emails sent to about 500 in a 24 hour rolling period. Discourse sends out a _What you missed Summary_ emails to all users once a week or so. So when you hit about 500 users or more then you run into an issue where gmail will block discourse from sending any more emails.
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### Author:  [@Luc\_Sun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Luc_Sun)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749/6 "2024-02-07T02:18:46Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> It’s not something that I would choose to spend my time on.you
you could try a app password
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-using-gmail-smtp-settings/291749/7 "2024-03-08T02:19:09Z")
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