# What determines the default email contact in TOS?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-determines-the-default-email-contact-in-tos/166608>\
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**Created:** [October 8, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-determines-the-default-email-contact-in-tos/166608 "2020-10-08T02:08:33Z")\
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> [@HAWK](#):
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> It is the contact email in your admin settings.

> [@omarfilip](#):
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> I think that email comes from the yaml file when you installed Discourse. You can change it by editing the TOS page.

Ah ok, that makes sense. I initially installed using an email address that I later changed in the settings.

Re the `contact email` in the Required settings: since that seems to be primarily for Discourse-generated emails, I’m using an external email address, which I don’t want to make public to users.

A great solution would be if I could add a custom incoming email address to the `admins` group, but it looks like that’s not possible with default groups, only groups I create. Any idea why? Do I have to set up a custom admins group in order to receive email within the app for this purpose?

Edit: Maybe I’ve made a wrong assumption. If my Discourse is at [forum.example.com](http://forum.example.com)—and I am not using an external smtp service for incoming mail—can I set the `contact email` in admin to `admin@forum.example.com`?

Edit 2: Just tested that, and the answer is no. The response is `Email::Receiver::BadDestinationAddress`

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