# SMTP server connects, mail fails to send

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/smtp-server-connects-mail-fails-to-send/135096>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [December 4, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smtp-server-connects-mail-fails-to-send/135096 "2019-12-04T21:38:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smtp-server-connects-mail-fails-to-send/135096/2 "2019-12-04T22:04:24Z")

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My guess is that your forum is called forum.maniabots.xyz and is sending from noreply@forum.maniabots.xyz and your mail server won’t do it. There is a line at the bottom of app.yml that you can change to set the address. You have to edit it by hand.

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