The title says it all. I installed discourse maybe 10 times on Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 7 and even on a pre installed Docker on Debian 10 changing every time a bit in the discourse setup part, thinking what went wrong when for the first time admin login page shows up and yet clicking on activate my account BUT not receiving any emails
I use Sparkpost for smtp besides using gmail as well worked for me but nothing is changing…!
Can someone explain in plain language with no confusion what should be done to get the forum up and running??
PS. I even used my default domain name not the subdomain to get working and still no luck!
You have somehow broken your DNS. I cannot imagine how or why. You shouldn’t need to change the A record for your site. If you use some dns service like cpanel it can be hard to create the TXT records required for mail delivery.
If you install from the start many times let’s encrypt will refuse to issue you a new certificate so you’ll need to wait a week or use a different subdomain.