# Does enable\_staged\_users break anonymous incoming emails?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [3월 25, 2016, 2:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545 "2016-03-25T02:19:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [3월 25, 2016, 2:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545/1 "2016-03-25T02:19:02Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Can I turn off staged users?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-turn-off-staged-users/40920/5):
Sorry to re-open this conversation so soon, but what will this do to the configuration where a category is configured with the **“Accept emails from anonymous users with no accounts”** option enabled and a value for **“Custom incoming email address”**? Previously, this would allow non-users to email in to a category. I hope this change didn’t break that …
Any ideas?
_PS: In the future it would be nice to leave the discussion open for a little longer than 6 hours after designing and implementing a new feature for follow up questions. 😉_
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 25, 2016, 2:28오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545/2 "2016-03-25T02:28:12Z")
Are you finding it broken in practice or is this blue sky daydreaming 😉 ?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [3월 25, 2016, 8:31오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545/3 "2016-03-25T08:31:27Z")
You can see the “`enable_staged_users`” as a global setting and “ **Accept emails from anonymous users with no accounts** ” as a per-category setting.
If the global setting is disabled, the per-category setting **will not** work.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [3월 25, 2016, 1:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545/4 "2016-03-25T13:35:02Z")
Thanks … I had a hunch that would be the case.
But now we have two UI settings that are tied but without any visual indication.
Personally my preference would be for these two things (staged users and anonymous incoming email) to be unlinked like they were “before”, but it seems like at a minimum the anon email setting should be disabled if the staged users are disabled globally.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [3월 27, 2016, 3:01오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545/5 "2016-03-27T03:01:04Z")
I agree, the setting should be hidden in the edit category dialog.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [6월 8, 2024, 12:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545/6 "2024-06-08T12:45:51Z")
이 주제는 2997일 후 자동으로 닫혔습니다. 더 이상 새 답글을 작성할 수 없습니다.