# Auto-approve user accounts by email domain

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-approve-user-accounts-by-email-domain/83275
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [19 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-approve-user-accounts-by-email-domain/83275 "2018-03-19T03:22:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![philmargetts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/philmargetts/32/92410_2.png) [@philmargetts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/philmargetts)
#### Post date: [19 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-approve-user-accounts-by-email-domain/83275/1 "2018-03-19T03:22:22Z")

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Hi all,

Curious if it’s possible to auto-approve new accounts based on email domain? Or is this something we’d have to leverage the API to do?

Cheers

Phil

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [19 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 4:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-approve-user-accounts-by-email-domain/83275/2 "2018-03-19T04:08:30Z")

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To clarify, I believe this is referring to the “must approve new users” setting (not user _activation_ where you click a link in an email).

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [20 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 12:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-approve-user-accounts-by-email-domain/83275/3 "2018-03-20T00:20:12Z")

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This is not possible at the current time.

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### Author: ![philmargetts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/philmargetts/32/92410_2.png) [@philmargetts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/philmargetts)
#### Post date: [20 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-approve-user-accounts-by-email-domain/83275/4 "2018-03-20T11:42:17Z")

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Thanks Jeff. Any planned future development in this space?

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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: [20 במרץ,‏ 2018,‏ 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-approve-user-accounts-by-email-domain/83275/5 "2018-03-20T23:49:41Z")

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No plans at the moment but there are some other workflows:

- You can grant users a group automatically via email and allow access to specific categories for groups.
- You can send out invites which should automatically allow users in.

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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: [17 ביולי,‏ 2020,‏ 11:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-approve-user-accounts-by-email-domain/83275/6 "2020-07-17T11:56:50Z")

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