# Disable Email Verification
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-verification/165498
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 27, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-verification/165498 "2020-09-27T01:03:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Doniel\_Zoldan1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Doniel_Zoldan1)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-verification/165498/1 "2020-09-27T01:03:27Z")
How can I disable email verification on sign up?
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-verification/165498/2 "2020-09-27T01:23:59Z")
This can only be done, if you have SSO enabled.
I also saw a plugin somewhere that does this, but why on earth do you want to disable it.
It will just cause you more headaches.
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### Author:  [@Doniel\_Zoldan1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Doniel_Zoldan1)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-verification/165498/3 "2020-09-27T01:25:12Z")
Because mailgun only allows authorized recipients on the free plan
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-verification/165498/4 "2020-09-27T01:27:29Z")
have you looked at other services ?
Check out [**Recommended Email Providers for Discourse**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-email.md).
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-verification/165498/5 "2020-09-27T01:32:41Z")
See:
> [@Remove email verification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-email-verification/165435/2):
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> Email verification can’t be disabled. You might not understand why, but you actually want and need email address verification. Email is central to Discourse. Email addresses are considered as personally identifying information. You have a legal responsibility to verify that the address is owned by the user in question before storing it in your database. If a user were to enter the wrong email address either accidentally (or intentionally) you would otherwise end up sending email address to a u…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-verification/165498/6 "2020-10-27T01:37:56Z")
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