# Setup with digital ocean and SMTP
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** unsupported-install
**Created:** [September 29, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356 "2018-09-29T18:12:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@UltraAviation1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UltraAviation1)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/1 "2018-09-29T18:12:30Z")
Hey!
I need some help with setting up, i can go into PUTTY etc,
I mainly need help with SMTP (getting a service or smthn), If you have discord please let me know if you can help me.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/2 "2018-09-29T18:28:29Z")
You want to use a service like mailgun. I believe that the cloud install document recommends several. If you want to run your own mail server, you’ll need to get help elsewhere. It’s just not that easy anymore.
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### Author:  [@UltraAviation1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UltraAviation1)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/3 "2018-09-29T18:28:59Z")
Thanks, I just found a tutorial for mailgun 🙂
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### Author:  [@UltraAviation1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UltraAviation1)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/4 "2018-09-29T20:23:19Z")
Update: I need some help with SMTP, I have it all set up, I upgraded my mailgun acc but It won’t send emails.
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### Author:  [@UltraAviation1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UltraAviation1)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/5 "2018-09-29T20:29:29Z")
@pfaffman Pleasee see above ^
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/6 "2018-09-29T20:40:30Z")
Do you get anything in your mailgun logs?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/7 "2018-09-29T20:50:07Z")
Look at the mailgun logs; if they are empty. Use port 2525 for the SMTP port. You can re-run `discourse-setup` to change it.
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### Author:  [@UltraAviation1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UltraAviation1)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/8 "2018-09-30T17:12:01Z")
`Failed: noreply@discourse.do.co → ultrahartford@gmail.com '[The Hotel Forum] Confirm new Admin Account' Server response: 550 5.7.1 Unauthenticated email from do.co is not accepted due to domain's DMARC 5.7.1 policy. Please contact the administrator of do.co domain if this was 5.7.1 a legitimate mail. Please visit 5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690 to learn about the 5.7.1 DMARC initiative. g13-v6si1623047qtq.329 - gsmtp`
From Mailgun
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/9 "2018-09-30T18:08:44Z")
The links in the message you pasted tell you exactly what the problem is and how to fix it.
It’s possible that sending to [http://www.mail-tester.com](http://www.mail-tester.com) will give more info.
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### Author:  [@UltraAviation1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UltraAviation1)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/10 "2018-09-30T18:14:47Z")
I don’t know how to, Do I use mail tester for what?
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/11 "2018-10-01T08:58:25Z")
For the first,
Go to settings and change your notification email.
Change it from `noreply@discourse.do.co` to something like `noreply@yourdomain.tld`
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/12 "2018-10-02T00:43:45Z")
This also implies it is using the DO one click install, I believe they mess that email up in that exact way.
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### Author:  [@PaulRBerg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PaulRBerg)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/13 "2018-12-20T15:52:22Z")
I know this is not specifically related to Discourse, but if anyone from Digital Ocean reads this thread, would you consider adding a warning in the [Discourse One-Click Application](https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/one-clicks/discourse/) explaining how important is to set the “notification email” correctly? It remained set to `noreply@discourse.do.co` and that was a pain in the neck as I ended up switching 3 different SMTP providers due to lack of clear warnings in the logs of the first two.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-with-digital-ocean-and-smtp/98356/14 "2018-12-20T22:31:07Z")
Last I heard no one at Digital Ocean was maintaining the script.
What it really should do is to instruct people to run discourse-setup.