# What mail service do you recommend?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-mail-service-do-you-recommend/85507
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [April 17, 2018, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-mail-service-do-you-recommend/85507 "2018-04-17T08:12:00Z")
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### Author: ![cmwebdev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cmwebdev/32/122368_2.png) [@cmwebdev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cmwebdev)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-mail-service-do-you-recommend/85507/4 "2018-05-29T15:16:44Z")

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Another downside to Elastic Email is that I have not yet figured out a way to get bounced emails to display in the Discourse dashboard.

This thread shows how to set it up for the other, recommended email providers:

> [@Configure VERP to handle bouncing e-mails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-bouncing-e-mails/45343):
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> Setting up bounces handling Discourse uses the [Variable envelope return path (VERP)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path) technique to handle bouncing e-mails. To enable VERP, set the “reply by email address” site setting with an email address template that uses the + sign. The default of replies+%{reply\_key}@discourse.example.com … works fine. If you are using your own or your company’s email server, then, that’s it tada Your discourse instance must be able to receive email sent to this address. This should work via POP, bu…

Not sure why Elastic Email is recommended but still no guide on how to set this up.

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