Hey guys, 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 activ…

Have you checked sparkpost logs for a reject reason?

No as a matter of fact but will take a look at it now! Edit from here: There is no logs to track in sparkpost. My domain wasn’t verified but when I try to do so I got one: Unable to verify cname record of forum.domain.com DNS CNAME query error: No CNAME records retrieved and the second t…

Now I get 404 Not Found on openresty I managed the installation 10 times but I’ve done it twice in an hour and got same 404 sign :frowning:

[image] spectre: My domain wasn’t verified Then I doubt sparkpost will deliver mail. 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 requir…

Now I got my mail or domain verified but I guess you’re right my dns is broken somewhere and I have work on that over the weekend …! Will report back if I got it worked out … who knows maybe others would learn from this and don’t fall in the same trap like I did :smiley:

Site installed but NO admin email activation

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 16, 2022, 7:01am 4

Please see Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install

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Site installed but NO admin email activation

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