# Activating users without email?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-users-without-email/103305>\
**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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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-users-without-email/103305/11 "2018-12-03T22:20:08Z")

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You’re saying that as long as a way to unsubscribe (opt out) is provided it obviates the requirement to have permission to send an email? i.e. subscribing, opting in.

Sounds like it would introduce the risk of having all emails put on a blacklist.

Any source references that say doing this is OK?

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