# External SSO External ID not recognised

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-sso-external-id-not-recognised/80989>\
**Category:** SSO\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-sso-external-id-not-recognised/80989 "2018-02-20T02:02:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![aseemc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aseemc/32/91209_2.png) [@aseemc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aseemc)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-sso-external-id-not-recognised/80989/3 "2018-02-20T02:31:54Z")

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Yeah, we don’t really validate user emails.

I think in that case we might be better off not sending emails & rely only on the `external_id` , would that work?

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