# Do not auto-create users when reply by mail
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 18, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939 "2017-05-18T13:22:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Horus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Horus)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939/1 "2017-05-18T13:22:39Z")
Hello,
I have enabled “reply by email enabled” and it works fine. However, when a user replies from another address than he signed up, another user is created on-the-fly.
- Can make Discourse to post the reply as the user that the mail was sent to?
if that is not possible? (I don’t know if the VERP stuff after the plus sign is also connected the user name)
- Can I reject replies by mail that can’t be related to on existing user?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939/2 "2017-05-18T14:10:38Z")
Uncheck the “`enable staged users`” site setting and Discourse won’t automatically create users that doesn’t exist.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2017, 7:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939/3 "2017-05-19T07:35:41Z")
I was going to say that the plan for version 1.9 is to allow users to provide a secondary email address (which, I assume, would prevent staged users to be created at least for that email address) but that is [apparently not the case](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-9/61289). But there is a PR-welcome for this:
> [@Two emails for one user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-emails-for-one-user/16328/41):
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> I think we’re all generally in favour of N email support, but the implications of supporting more than a single backup email are not immediately clear. This is one of those arguments that is best resolved with code. Simply: Do a PR for 1 backup email, which you know will get accepted without much ado (and with much heart ) then we can resume the topic of N emails. If need be, do some basic mockups of how this’d work in Discourse (GitHub seems to provide a good frame of reference) before…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939/4 "2019-06-08T08:01:55Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939/5 "2022-11-09T21:48:08Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939/6 "2022-11-09T21:56:42Z")