I have a client that wants to use Discourse on a project but cannot have Discourse emails coming through their email system for legal reasons. The instance of Discourse is going to be very heavily moderated/administered by some people in charge of the project. It seems there are two possible solutio…

SSO ftw. Disable all emails, and set up a simple rails / Django app for user management, and reuse the SSO code for those frameworks. I really can’t say how awesome discourse SSO is.

Disabling all emails except those registration related?

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Disabling all emails except those registration related?

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