# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@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): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-auto-create-users-when-reply-by-mail/62939)._