# What type of email service is needed for discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-type-of-email-service-is-needed-for-discourse/48917>\
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**Created:** [2016年八月20日 08:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-type-of-email-service-is-needed-for-discourse/48917 "2016-08-20T08:58:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [2016年八月20日 08:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-type-of-email-service-is-needed-for-discourse/48917/1 "2016-08-20T08:58:31Z")

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I completed by setup with mailgun and saw some post setting discourse with Zoho . What type of email service is required for a forum setup ? Is transactional mail setup sufficient ? I also stumbled upon the routes option in mailgun which will make it equivalent to zoho,google business email . Correct me if i am wrong i am just to confused with the variety of email saas services that are offered , Any article that could provide complete information explaining the type of email services

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**Author:** ![Pad\_Pors](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pad_pors/32/52016_2.png) [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)\
**Post date:** [2016年八月20日 12:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-type-of-email-service-is-needed-for-discourse/48917/2 "2016-08-20T12:30:56Z")

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mailgun is working good, and we’re using mailgun as well. I don’t know what zoho provides, so I can’t compare these two.

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**Author:** ![damienbowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/damienbowman/32/59753_2.png) [@damienbowman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/damienbowman)\
**Post date:** [2016年八月23日 13:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-type-of-email-service-is-needed-for-discourse/48917/3 "2016-08-23T13:16:41Z")

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we use sparkpost for our setup. works well and is free until you hit mass. heres a setup guide: [https://support.sparkpost.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2340644-using-sparkpost-with-discourse?b\_id=7411](https://support.sparkpost.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2340644-using-sparkpost-with-discourse?b_id=7411)

Amazon’s SES is probably very good, so that’s another option, and there’s a tutorial on here.

You’ll have to do some modification to your DNS setup for confirmation and such, but on the whole it isn’t the hardest thing you’ll do this year.