# Creating a staged user with an API call

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [April 5, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667 "2018-04-05T19:19:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![blake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blake/32/157322_2.png) [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667/16 "2020-02-26T17:31:23Z")

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> [@dm.linov](#):
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> There was a indeed a setting that prevented sending post notifications

Which setting for anyone following along? I don’t think I had to change anything, so just curious.

> [@dm.linov](#):
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> Why there wasn’t an email informing the staged user that the topic was created and sending him the link to it?

I think this is by design and the same happens if you send an email to a Discourse group. It is designed to work just like email as in the user might not even know they are sending an email into a Discourse forum. If I send you a regular email to your email account I don’t get a reply back from your email provider that says you received my email, we just trust that it works.

> [@dm.linov](#):
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> Why there’s no link to the topic in the post notification emails? Also no unsubscribe link.  
> The template seems to be the same - “user\_posted”.

Here is an example email notification a staged user will receive:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/e/ceb4f0ec7c49ed4b67755a217880412e77b3c7aa.png)

but this is what a non-staged user will receive:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/b/7b30b7733dabfd4ec76af535d8ad28b0e8a7e4e7.png)

There appears to be a difference between staged users and non-staged users. Likely because the user is staged it is to be just like interacting via regular email.

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