Using "email in" feature for a Gmail account with AWS SES SMTP settings

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Hi, new Discourse user here.

I want to configure “email in” so that my forum can receive emails from a mailing list and allow users to see/reply to them.

I’m not sure I fully understand the intention of the Custom incoming email address setting – it appears that whatever address I enter here is going to be polled over SMTP by Discourse and any new emails become topics, right?

I’ve tried this with an email address that exists on the SMTP domain I configured (and can send emails). I’m using AWS SES for the SMTP server, but the actual email inbox I’m trying to use is a Gmail one.

Did I miss some configuration step here? eg. when I use user@mydomain.com for this setting, then send an email to that address, nothing happens and the logs show no received email. What am I doing wrong?

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Hmm, I think I answered my own question by discovering this post: Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver

I guess that’s what I need to do, although I’m not sure I want to reconfigure DNS for my email provider. Maybe I need a different domain just for this…

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