Trouble sending mail via Namecheap Private Email (SMTP) on self-hosted Discourse

[NateDhaliwal]

You should use a transaction mail serive like Mailgun, Brevo or Amazon SES. That’s the optimal way to send emails from your forum.

See discourse/docs/INSTALL-email.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

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