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	docs: Document ADD_TOKENS_TO_NOREPLY_ADDRESS in email.md.
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  your hosting provider's firewall.
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					  your hosting provider's firewall.
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* Your SMTP server's permissions might not allow the email account
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					* Your SMTP server's permissions might not allow the email account
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  you're using to send email from the `noreply` email address.
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					  you're using to send email from the `noreply` email addresses used
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					  by Zulip when sending confirmation emails.
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					  For security reasons, Zulip sends confirmation emails (used for
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					  account creation, etc.) with randomly generated from addresses
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					  starting with `noreply-`.
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					  If necessary, you can set `ADD_TOKENS_TO_NOREPLY_ADDRESS` to `False`
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					  in `/etc/zulip/settings.py` (which will cause these confirmation
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					  emails to be sent from a consistent `noreply@` address).  Disabling
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					  `ADD_TOKENS_TO_NOREPLY_ADDRESS` is generally safe if you are not
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					  using Zulip's feature that allows anyone to create an account in
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					  your Zulip organization if they have access to an email address in a
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					  certain domain.  See [this article][helpdesk-attack] for details on
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					  the security issue with helpdesk software that
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					  `ADD_TOKENS_TO_NOREPLY_ADDRESS` helps protect against.
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* Make sure you set the password in `/etc/zulip/zulip-secrets.conf`.
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					* Make sure you set the password in `/etc/zulip/zulip-secrets.conf`.
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  if Django documentation references setting `EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD`,
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					  if Django documentation references setting `EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD`,
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  you should instead set `email_password` in
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					  you should instead set `email_password` in
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  `/etc/zulip/zulip-secrets.conf`.
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					  `/etc/zulip/zulip-secrets.conf`.
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					[helpdesk-attack]: https://medium.com/intigriti/how-i-hacked-hundreds-of-companies-through-their-helpdesk-b7680ddc2d4c
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