# Solution for privateemail configurations
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-for-privateemail-configurations/71561
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [2017年十月7日 00:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-for-privateemail-configurations/71561 "2017-10-07T00:13:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Mohamed\_farahat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mohamed_farahat)
#### Post date: [2017年十月7日 00:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-for-privateemail-configurations/71561/1 "2017-10-07T00:13:16Z")
several users tried to configure Discourse with `privateemail` without luck including me. you can read more about this problem here “[https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-admin-email-to-send-working-with-using-namecheap-email-server/57423](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-admin-email-to-send-working-with-using-namecheap-email-server/57423)”. but after a month of investigations, i finally found the solution.
the main problem was the “from” field
discourse by default use [noreply@yourdomain.com](mailto:noreply@yourdomain.com) for notification emails but privateemail SMTP server needs the mail address of the mailbox you have.
there is no why to solve this issue while installation @codinghorror so after installation you have to re-open `containers/app.yml` file and make the following adjustments.
### SMTP Configurations
```plaintext
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: mail.privateemail.com
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: mailBox@yourdomain.com
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: " ****************"
#DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true # (optional, default true)
```
1- use port 587
2- use your mailbox address instead of `mailBox@yourdomain.com`
3- uncomment `DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS` and set it to `true`
### Notification E-Mails Configurations
At the end of the file you would find
```plaintext
## Any custom commands to run after building
run:
- exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands"
## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change:
## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once.
#- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='mailBox@yourdomain.com'"
- exec: echo "End of custom commands"
```
1- uncomment `- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='mailBox@yourdomain.com'"`
2- use your mailbox address instead of `mailBox@yourdomain.com`
now `./launcher rebuild app` and have fun 😉
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### Author:  [@anon23840344](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon23840344)
#### Post date: [2020年八月17日 02:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-for-privateemail-configurations/71561/2 "2020-08-17T02:53:55Z")
干得漂亮，谢谢。这应该被纳入官方文档。祝好。
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### Author:  [@llc1990](https://meta.discourse.org/u/llc1990)
#### Post date: [2020年八月18日 06:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-for-privateemail-configurations/71561/3 "2020-08-18T06:46:03Z")
对于不知道在哪里找到 `containers/app.yml` 的新手，这里是完整路径：`/var/discourse/containers/app.yml`
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### Author:  [@Enrico\_Enrico](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Enrico_Enrico)
#### Post date: [2020年十一月29日 15:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-for-privateemail-configurations/71561/4 "2020-11-29T15:58:57Z")
我已经为同样的问题寻找解决方案大约 4 个小时了。
我同意这应该被包含在文档中。
真的，拜托了。
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### Author:  [@Reliant313](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Reliant313)
#### Post date: [2023年九月28日 23:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-for-privateemail-configurations/71561/5 "2023-09-28T23:14:42Z")
这篇文章在 5 年后仍然解决了问题。非常感谢您的分享。
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### Author:  [@ascension.forum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ascension.forum)
#### Post date: [2025年六月5日 03:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solution-for-privateemail-configurations/71561/6 "2025-06-05T03:30:03Z")
Confirmed this is still working as of 6/4/2025 😃