# Can Discourse function without emails entirely?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-function-without-emails-entirely/368701>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 3, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-function-without-emails-entirely/368701 "2025-06-03T14:26:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-function-without-emails-entirely/368701/3 "2025-06-03T15:28:25Z")

</div>

I’m on a site with email disabled, and I think that is only possible because of the SSO handling login and password resets, etc.

Without needing those, I think using onsite notifications and having no email notifications for anything works quite well. 👍

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-function-without-emails-entirely/368701)._