# Create New Topic via Anon Email Bug
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-new-topic-via-anon-email-bug/23592
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2015 年1 月 2 日 07:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-new-topic-via-anon-email-bug/23592 "2015-01-02T07:02:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Jake\_Jackson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jake_Jackson)
#### Post date: [2015 年1 月 2 日 07:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-new-topic-via-anon-email-bug/23592/1 "2015-01-02T07:02:43Z")
Hi,
I’ve configured one of my categories to allow new topics to be created from an anonymous user with no account - this category setting:
> Accept emails from anonymous users with no accounts
This is working correctly and the new topic is being created. However I noticed when a reply is made the original ‘email’ address used to create the topic isn’t receiving a notification email. I would have thought this anon poster would have got a notification. Could you clarify the behaviour?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015 年1 月 2 日 11:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-new-topic-via-anon-email-bug/23592/2 "2015-01-02T11:30:51Z")
Why would an anonymous email address get notified about the topic? Only registered users get that behavior.
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### Author:  [@Jake\_Jackson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jake_Jackson)
#### Post date: [2015 年1 月 2 日 12:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-new-topic-via-anon-email-bug/23592/3 "2015-01-02T12:23:45Z")
Hi,
The anon user created the topic via email. It makes sense that they would receive follow up notifications to their email address regarding their topic - otherwise I can’t see how anon topic creation via email is a useful feature.
Reading around the forums I assumed this is one of those features to help integrate the less-forum-savvy users into the discussion - which I thought was a very slick idea. But if there’s no way for those anon users to get follow up notifications about a discussion they started via email I’m better off ditching the feature entirely, as I’ll never hear from the anon-topic-creator once we reply to the post.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016 年3 月 31 日 02:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-new-topic-via-anon-email-bug/23592/4 "2016-03-31T02:40:31Z")
Is this still a bug? I am closing this, flag to reopen if you can repro.
When the account is created it is a proper user account and topic they create is watched by them, so notifications will go to the new account.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016 年3 月 31 日 02:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-new-topic-via-anon-email-bug/23592/5 "2016-03-31T02:40:35Z")