# Generating an invite link automatically creates a user and sends an email?

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**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [2016 年10 月 7 日 02:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-an-invite-link-automatically-creates-a-user-and-sends-an-email/51204 "2016-10-07T02:54:12Z")\
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作者： ![cappy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@cappy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cappy)\
发布日期： [2016 年10 月 7 日 02:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-an-invite-link-automatically-creates-a-user-and-sends-an-email/51204/1 "2016-10-07T02:54:12Z")

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I am trying to only generate an invite link and nothing else; doing a request to /link results in an invite email being triggered and an account being automatically created

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/9/f9ce5dfc69e3ec37b2a7e83a3de6608e8af823d7.png)

How do I prevent this behaviour and only generate the link and nothing else? I explicitly only click copy link, and not send.

The only requests fired:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/a/8affb51523c81fd5adbd221785a2359527400f66.png)

It does not appear to be an email system auto-visiting every link received in a message body; there is no activation IP:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/9/39765955cd78f7ce7f3fd02d174d0124933ac828.png)

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