Is an email address required for deployment?

[WuBarlynn (用户18)]

I want to deploy this on a server, but I don’t have a mail server. Can I deploy it without configuring an email address?

[kddkd (用户16)]

You can enter an email address, such as a QQ email, during deployment. After that, you can manually create an administrator account via a command to log in to the backend and view the website.

Subsequently, you can manually specify a working email address in the YAML configuration to send system notifications.

[Moin]

SMPT is optional now.

From https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-just-got-a-whole-lot-easier/393915:

@Falco

To alleviate this, we’ve made SMTP optional. The new installer allows you to skip SMTP setup entirely by relying on Discourse ID for login.

SMTP setup was always the number one issue people setting up Discourse for the first time struggled with, so we are excited to finally remove this hurdle in our install.