diff --git a/app/api/email/route.ts b/app/api/email/route.ts
index 8ab1a1a3d57066e4053b74ea59ae54c06a00496d..d4c260b092075c3ad842b6a6bbc7238af03dba88 100644
--- a/app/api/email/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/email/route.ts
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ export default async function handler(
   }
   // https://nodemailer.com/smtp/
   const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
-    service: "gmail",
+    host: "smtp.gameunity.tgos@gmail.com",
+    port: 587,
     auth: {
       user: process.env.NODEMAIL_MAIL,
       pass: process.env.NODEMAIL_PW,
     },
-    secure: false, // Default value but showing for explicitness
   });
 
   const { subject, email, html } = req.body;
diff --git a/components/user-auth-form.tsx b/components/user-auth-form.tsx
index dd9ce46f7bfe9ad1fd92208700e98e2e6a05bb81..d0c75d1899b9d757c86a771ed18b58f5f75a3860 100644
--- a/components/user-auth-form.tsx
+++ b/components/user-auth-form.tsx
@@ -36,34 +36,34 @@ export function UserAuthForm({ type, className, ...props }: UserAuthFormProps) {
     const router = useRouter();
     const searchParams = useSearchParams()
 
-    async function sendVerificationEmail(email: string) {
-        try {
-            const res = await fetch('/api/email', {
-                method: 'POST',
-                headers: {
-                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-                },
-                body: JSON.stringify({
-                    email,
-                    subject: 'Email Verification',
-                    text: 'Please verify your email address.',
-                }),
-            });
+    // async function sendVerificationEmail(email: string) {
+    //     try {
+    //         const res = await fetch('/api/email', {
+    //             method: 'POST',
+    //             headers: {
+    //                 'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+    //             },
+    //             body: JSON.stringify({
+    //                 email,
+    //                 subject: 'Email Verification',
+    //                 html: '<h1>Please verify your email address.</h1>',
+    //             }),
+    //         });
 
-            const body = await res.json();
+    //         const body = await res.json();
 
-            if (res.ok) {
-                alert(`${body.message} 🚀`);
-            }
+    //         if (res.ok) {
+    //             alert(`${body.message} 🚀`);
+    //         }
 
-            if (res.status === 400) {
-                alert(`${body.message} 😢`);
-            }
-        } catch (err) {
-            console.log('Something went wrong: ', err);
-        }
+    //         if (res.status === 400) {
+    //             alert(`${body.message} 😢`);
+    //         }
+    //     } catch (err) {
+    //         console.log('Something went wrong: ', err);
+    //     }
 
-    }
+    // }
 
     async function onSubmit(data: FormData) {
         setIsLoading(true)
@@ -89,10 +89,11 @@ export function UserAuthForm({ type, className, ...props }: UserAuthFormProps) {
                 setIsLoading(false)
                 return toast({
                     variant: "destructive",
-                    title: "Uh oh! Something went wrong.",
+                    title: "THIS Uh oh! Something went wrong.",
                     description: "Your sign up request failed. Please try again.",
                 })
             }
+            // await sendVerificationEmail(data.email!)
         }
 
         const signInResult = await signIn("credentials", {
@@ -124,7 +125,6 @@ export function UserAuthForm({ type, className, ...props }: UserAuthFormProps) {
                 action: <ToastAction altText="Try again">Try again</ToastAction>,
             })
         }
-        await sendVerificationEmail(data.email!)
 
         router.push("/home")
 
diff --git a/lib/config/nodemailer.ts b/lib/config/nodemailer.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ec015fdbcdae7aaa7f3965799436c4bdea10126..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lib/config/nodemailer.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-
-import * as nodemailer from "nodemailer";
-import { MailOptions } from "nodemailer/lib/json-transport";
-
-export class Emailer {
-  private readonly transporter: nodemailer.Transporter;
-
-  constructor() {
-    this.transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
-      service: "gmail",
-      auth: {
-        user: process.env.NODEMAIL_MAIL,
-        pass: process.env.NODEMAIL_PW,
-      },
-    });
-  }
-
-  public sendEmail(mailOptions: MailOptions) {
-    return this.transporter.sendMail(mailOptions);
-  }
-
-  public notifyAdminForNewUser(email: string, username: string) {
-    this.sendEmail(notifyAdminNewUserEmailTemplate(email, username));
-  }
-
-  public notifyUserForSignup(email: string, username: string) {
-    this.sendEmail(newUserEmailTemplate(email, username));
-  }
-}
-
-export const emailer = new Emailer();
-
-export const newUserEmailTemplate = (email: string, username: string) => {
-  return {
-    from: process.env.GMAIL_USER,
-    to: email,
-    subject: `${username}, Welcome to the our website`,
-    text: "Welcome to the our website",
-    html: `
-      <h1>Welcome to our website!</h1>
-      <p>We're glad you've decided to join us. We hope you find everything you're looking for here and enjoy using our site.</p>
-      <p>If you have any questions or need any help, please don't hesitate to contact us. Thank you for signing up!</p>
-    `,
-  } as MailOptions;
-};
-
-export const notifyAdminNewUserEmailTemplate = (
-  email: string,
-  username: string
-) => {
-  return {
-    from: process.env.GMAIL_USER,
-    to: process.env.GMAIL_USER,
-    subject: `New User: ${username} - email: ${email}`,
-    text: `New User: ${username} - email: ${email}`,
-    html: `
-      <h1>New User: ${username}</h1>
-      <p>email: ${email}</p>
-    `,
-  } as MailOptions;
-};
-