@superbranch mailgun requires a CC number, even on the free plan. Without the CC number, it only accepts emails to a list of addresses you specifically approve.

@listrophy I whitelisted my address for testing, but that doesn't work yet

@superbranch IIRC, emails get sent through Sidekiq (and hence redis). Make sure that's working (/sidekiq on the instance)

@listrophy Thanks! That's very useful info (I'm slightly out of my CZ since I don't do much ruby anymore). I verified both sidekiq and redis are running after rechecking I did everything at https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md so maybe I'll start digging into the systemd scripts a little more

@superbranch oh. you didn't run it with docker-compose? that's what i did. Anyway, try to get into the `rails console`, find your User object, and update accordingly. That's how I set the admin bit on my account :)

@listrophy Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't use docker because that would be totally new to me and I'm trying to limit the number of incomprehensible variables at one time ;)