Dear all, I just started setting up a galaxy instance and I'm a bit stuck with user account activation without e-mail. Is it possible to run Galaxy without an SMTP server set? For example, for the administrator user, I set: admin_users = <my e-mail> in galaxy.ini . I'd also like to require login (i.e., require_login = True) but it seems that I can't do that from the outset. That has to be False and allow_user_creation has to be True. Then I can create a user with the same account as above, who will then become an administrator. But, the account has to be validated some how and I can't seem to figure out how to do that without enabling an SMTP server. Am I doing something that wasn't intended? Perhaps I must have an SMTP server set? Or are there other steps I should do to activate the administrator? The web page https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/GetGalaxy makes it look easy...so I am concerned I'm doing it all wrong... Also, if this instance will be a production system some day, should I start using a database (Postgres or MySQL) right away and not bother with the default SQLite? Otherwise, I will have to port the data over, which the documentation implies is not an easy thing to do... Thank you! Ray