docs: Document how push notifications require a real email address.

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Alex Vandiver
2025-10-06 17:45:33 +00:00
committed by Tim Abbott
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#### Installer options
- `--email=it-team@example.com`: The email address for the **person or team who
maintains the Zulip installation**. Zulip users on your server will see this
as the contact email in automated emails, on help pages, on error pages, etc.
You can later configure a display name for your contact email with the
`ZULIP_ADMINISTRATOR` [setting][doc-settings].
- `--email=it-team@example.com`: A **real email address for the person
or team who maintains the Zulip installation**. Zulip users on your
server will see this as the contact email in automated emails, on
help pages, on error pages, etc. If you use the [Mobile Push
Notification Service](mobile-push-notifications.md), this is used as
a point of contact. You can later configure a display name for your
contact email with the `ZULIP_ADMINISTRATOR`
[setting][doc-settings].
- `--hostname=zulip.example.com`: The user-accessible domain name for this Zulip
server, i.e., what users will type in their web browser. This becomes

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outgoing HTTP proxy](deployment.md#customizing-the-outgoing-http-proxy)
first.
1. Make sure that the `ZULIP_ADMINISTRATOR` setting in your
`/etc/zulip/settings.py` file is a real email address which you
monitor. If the Mobile Push Notification Service needs to contact
you regarding your server, and will use this email address. [See
below](#updating-your-servers-registration) for instructions if
this contact needs to be updated later.
1. Set `ZULIP_SERVICE_PUSH_NOTIFICATIONS = True` in your
`/etc/zulip/settings.py` file. Simply uncomment the appropriate line [in
settings.py][update-settings-docs] by deleting the initial `# `.