# Using Google Suite as notification email?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-google-suite-as-notification-email/183426
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-google-suite-as-notification-email/183426 "2021-03-16T14:39:07Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-google-suite-as-notification-email/183426/2 "2021-03-16T17:17:28Z")

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It’s against the Google terms of service and if you do that they may suspend your account. There are previous discussions about this:

> [@Using Google Mail as an SMTP service](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-google-mail-as-an-smtp-service/160561):
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> I am currently using Google’s SMTP service for my Discourse instance via [this guide](https://www.siteground.com/kb/google_free_smtp_server/). Are there any downsides to using it?

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