# Disabling activation emails while doing a disqus import
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [Novembre 10, 2017, 6:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845 "2017-11-10T18:31:40Z")
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### Author:  [@Quintin\_Par](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Quintin_Par)
#### Post date: [Novembre 10, 2017, 6:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845/1 "2017-11-10T18:31:40Z")
While researching disqus import I came across this warning
[http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2014/09/27/updating-to-jekyll-2-and-discourse-for-comments/](http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2014/09/27/updating-to-jekyll-2-and-discourse-for-comments/)
Since these are users who’ve already been on the site (technically), how do I ensure they don’t get another activation email?
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [Novembre 10, 2017, 6:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845/2 "2017-11-10T18:41:10Z")
In settings search for _disable emails_. Then after importing clear the queue:
> [@Delete outgoing emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-outgoing-emails/44394/2):
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> Easiest way to remove emails from the outbound queue is to flush redis # ssh into your server cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app redis-cli flushall
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### Author:  [@Quintin\_Par](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Quintin_Par)
#### Post date: [Novembre 10, 2017, 9:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845/3 "2017-11-10T21:04:42Z")
Does this mean that users will be considered activated?
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [Novembre 10, 2017, 9:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845/4 "2017-11-10T21:32:03Z")
You are importing users into WP who are already activated in Discourse, so their status will not change as long as you use the same username and email.
If there is a discrepancy between the WP user and Discourse user you will get a new user created in Discourse.
So, if you have Bob with [bob@home.com](mailto:bob@home.com) in Discourse now, and the same Bob in WP but with [bob@work.com](mailto:bob@work.com), when he logs into Discourse from WP, he will become a new Discourse user Bob1.
Once Bob has logged into Discourse via WP the first time, he can then go back to WP and edit his email and it will carry over to Discourse.
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### Author:  [@Quintin\_Par](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Quintin_Par)
#### Post date: [Novembre 10, 2017, 9:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845/5 "2017-11-10T21:36:15Z")
Thanks for the clarification. So this is a fresh discourse setup. There are no users on discourse and I am migrating all the WP comments to discourse. So technically these are new discourse users.
Does that create a problem?
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [Novembre 10, 2017, 9:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845/6 "2017-11-10T21:52:48Z")
> [@Quintin\_Par](#):
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> already been on the site
I misunderstood this ^^ part. I don’t know how the WP comments importer will do it, but the phpBB importer I used created activated users from valid users in the old forum.
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### Author:  [@Quintin\_Par](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Quintin_Par)
#### Post date: [Novembre 17, 2017, 4:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845/7 "2017-11-17T16:03:01Z")
How do I clear the queue?
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [Novembre 17, 2017, 4:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-activation-emails-while-doing-a-disqus-import/73845/8 "2017-11-17T16:18:06Z")
See the link in post #2 above.