diff --git a/docs/INSTALL-email.md b/docs/INSTALL-email.md
index 6deb34d24b2..1686b2fc158 100644
--- a/docs/INSTALL-email.md
+++ b/docs/INSTALL-email.md
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
 # Discourse Mail Setup Guide
 
-After following INSTALL-ubuntu.md your mailer settings should still be set (in
-`config/environments/production.rb`, remember) to:
-
-```ruby
-  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail
-  config.action_mailer.sendmail_settings = {arguments: '-i'}
-```
+After following INSTALL-ubuntu.md your mailer settings should still be set.
 
+Out-of-the-box Discourse is configured to deliver mail locally via sendmail.
 That's great. Leave that there as we're going to try to get the mail to postfix
 ASAP so postfix do it's job and process the mail for delivery.