# Tenant Production Checks - m2m requires email provider

**URL:** <https://community.auth0.com/t/tenant-production-checks-m2m-requires-email-provider/36882>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** tenant-management, machine-to-machine\
**Created:** [January 27, 2020, 11:12am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/tenant-production-checks-m2m-requires-email-provider/36882 "2020-01-27T11:12:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MyMirelHub](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/mymirelhub/32/18420_2.png) [@MyMirelHub](https://community.auth0.com/u/MyMirelHub)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 11:12am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/tenant-production-checks-m2m-requires-email-provider/36882/1 "2020-01-27T11:12:37Z")

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I am trying to make a tenant production-ready using the `Production Check` feature highlighted here:

> **[Run Production Readiness Checks - Auth0 Docs](https://auth0.com/docs/deploy-monitor/pre-deployment-checks/how-to-run-production-checks)**
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> Learn how to run the Auth0 Production Checks to ensure that your Applications are production-ready.

However, I get an error than an `email provider is not configured`.

 ![screenshot-support.auth0.com-2020.01.27-10_52_47](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/original/3X/6/5/651743ffa4ce18cb1339aa8e30226bd66a6f6863.png)

Our use case is a bit different, we only use Auth0 for machine-to-machine flows, so there is no user-facing login to direct a support email to. So my questions are:

1. Is the production check a hard pre-requisite for becoming a production instance, or just a strong recommendation?
2. Is there an option to turn this check feature off?

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**Author:** ![jmangelo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/jmangelo/32/7923_2.png) [@jmangelo](https://community.auth0.com/u/jmangelo)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/tenant-production-checks-m2m-requires-email-provider/36882/2 "2020-01-27T15:54:48Z")

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The production check is to help you detect common problems or configurations that are not recommended **so it does not prevent anything in your tenant if some of the checks fail**. To my knowledge there isn’t an option to disable specific checks although I confess I never tried to disable one.

Just as a personal opinion, I would configure the email provider using custom SMTP to an invalid domain. This way it meets the check and also guarantees that if you start using emails in the future you will be reminded to configure one as that one would not work.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/original/3X/b/5/b560f266932fcce5d57f09a6595bd50518cae3f3.jpeg) [@system](https://community.auth0.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/tenant-production-checks-m2m-requires-email-provider/36882/3 "2020-02-11T15:54:49Z")

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