# Activating users without email?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 2, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-users-without-email/103305 "2018-12-02T17:14:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-users-without-email/103305/1 "2018-12-02T17:14:15Z")

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Has anyone written a module that will facilitate account activation via an alternative method such as a captcha or some other “real person” identification mechanism?

I’m interested in perhaps allowing users to sign up with an active account as long as they, in some fashion, prove they’re not a bot.

I do still want users to be able to receive email alerts and such, but I don’t want to force activation via the email pipeline and instead use email as a secondary alert service for users if they want them.

Anyone done such a thing or is this something we’d have to build out ourselves?

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