# Unable to invite new admin users to account without mailgun setup?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-invite-new-admin-users-to-account-without-mailgun-setup/56711>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [April 9, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-invite-new-admin-users-to-account-without-mailgun-setup/56711 "2025-04-09T12:30:12Z")\
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The configuration options in the documentation above only state:

- Configuring with Mailgun
- Amazon SES

You don’t necessarily need Mailgun as a mail provider to invite any new staff …

I miss a simple SMTP configuration.  
It would be good to specify this as well in the documentation:

```auto
...
"mail": {
  "transport": "SMTP",
  "from": "website@domain.com",
  "options": {
    "host": "mail.domain.com",
    "port": 587,
    "auth": {
      "user": "user@domain.com",
      "pass": "1234"
    }
  }
},
...

```

`"from"` entry is important, otherwise it won’t work.

There are other `options`:

- **secure** - if _true_ the connection will use TLS when connecting to server. If _false_ (the default) then TLS is used if server supports the STARTTLS extension
- **pool** - set to _true_ to use pooled connections (defaults to _false_) instead of creating a new connection for every email
- …

See:

> **[SMTP transport :: Nodemailer](https://www.nodemailer.com/smtp/)**
>
> Nodemailer is a module for Node.js to send emails

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