I’m doing a phpBB import. There are a bunch of missing email addresses (apparently because Facebook and others authenticated, but didn’t supply an email address) and a bunch more invalid ones. The client doesn’t want to have messages from those 12K (of 370K) users all lumped in to @system. One sol…

Just generating an email address won’t be enough. You should definitely disable emails for those users as I’m doing for anonymous users . You could either do this in the base importer or just modify the phpBB importer so that it handles users with missing email addresses similar to anonymous users. B…

Importers: What to do when missing email addresses

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) March 30, 2017, 10:16pm 3

Yes what @gerhard said .. when we migrated coding horror comments we used this filler email:

francis@no-email-found.com

(where the first name was the first name of the commenter..)

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