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 ”. but after a month of investigations, i finally found the solu…

Brilliant work, thank you. This should be incorporated into official documentation. Cheers.

For beginners who don’t know where to find the containers/app.yml, here is the path full: /var/discourse/containers/app.yml

I’ve been seraching for a solution for the same problem for about 4 hours. I agree this should be included in the documentation. Really, please.

This post is still solving problems 5 years later. Thank you so much for sharing this.

Confirmed this is still working as of 6/4/2025 :smiley:

Solution for privateemail configurations

Enrico_Enrico (Enrico Enrico) 29 نوفمبر 2020، 3:58م 4

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