# About the idea: IDENTITY = EMAIL

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [18. Oktober 2015 um 00:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642 "2015-10-18T00:41:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [18. Oktober 2015 um 21:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642/9 "2015-10-18T21:36:42Z")

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> [@jd2066](#):
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> Discourse does use email as the identity only such as SSO

Not really the case, if you specify that you want to allow SSO to override emails then external\_id is treated more strongly than email (meaning email is overridden on change). For all cases of SSO external\_id is strongest and always wins. Additionally SSO has the ability of sending in unverified emails.

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