# Adding an email to a group via invite

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-an-email-to-a-group-via-invite/150071
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-an-email-to-a-group-via-invite/150071 "2020-05-01T13:51:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![yaxu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yaxu/32/178942_2.png) [@yaxu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yaxu)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-an-email-to-a-group-via-invite/150071/1 "2020-05-01T13:51:24Z")

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It’s nice that if I upload a ‘bulk invite’ csv like this:

```plaintext
nice@test.com,nicegroup

```

If a user with the `nice@test.com` email already exists, they will get added to `nicegroup`.

However if I do an invite that isn’t a bulk upload, via the api or web interface, then if that email exists, they _won’t_ get added to the nicegroup. Is this by design?

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-an-email-to-a-group-via-invite/150071/2 "2024-06-22T16:36:26Z")

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