# Subdomain for email providers
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/subdomain-for-email-providers/101223
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [November 3, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subdomain-for-email-providers/101223 "2018-11-03T18:55:44Z")
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### Author:  [@acinonyxjubatus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/acinonyxjubatus)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subdomain-for-email-providers/101223/1 "2018-11-03T18:55:44Z")
On [email providers](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-email.md) github page I found
**Please note that in any email provider, you _must_ verify and use the subdomain, e.g. `discourse.example.com` . If you verify the domain only, e.g. `example.com` , mail will not be configured correctly.**
It is not quite clear. Should I obey this rule if my discourse works on [example.com](http://example.com), not on [discourse.example.com](http://discourse.example.com)?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subdomain-for-email-providers/101223/2 "2018-11-03T19:59:20Z")
You are correct, if you have installed at the apex domain (which I do not recommend) then you should validate email at the apex domain.