Solution for privateemail configurations

Soutien Installation
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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 solution.

the main problem was the “from” field
discourse by default use 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

  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

## 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 :wink:

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Excellent travail, merci. Cela devrait être intégré à la documentation officielle. Salutations.

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Pour les débutants qui ne savent pas où trouver le fichier containers/app.yml, voici le chemin complet : /var/discourse/containers/app.yml

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Je cherche une solution pour le même problème depuis environ 4 heures.
Je suis d’accord, cela devrait être inclus dans la documentation.
Vraiment, s’il vous plaît.

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Ce post résout encore des problèmes 5 ans plus tard. Merci beaucoup d’avoir partagé cela.

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Confirmé que cela fonctionne toujours à la date du 04/06/2025 :smiley: