# Does enable\_staged\_users break anonymous incoming emails?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Março 25, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545 "2016-03-25T02:19:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [Março 25, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-enable-staged-users-break-anonymous-incoming-emails/41545/1 "2016-03-25T02:19:02Z")

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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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