# Helping imported users claim their posts **URL:** \ **Category:** Migration\ **Created:** [4 يونيو 2017، 12:44ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892 "2017-06-04T00:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![lognaturel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lognaturel/32/119556_2.png) [@lognaturel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lognaturel)\ **Post date:** [4 يونيو 2017، 12:44ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892/1 "2017-06-04T00:44:10Z")
The [experimental mbox importer](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/script/import_scripts/mbox) (which works really well!) imports all users as staged users. This means that community members need to create new accounts and get no feedback about whether or not the email address they use for Discourse matches the email address in the import. Until the functionality to [merge users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-merge-users/9220) is added, this is potentially problematic. We don’t want users creating accounts with email addresses other than the one they used on the old forum. Ideally, we could instruct users to use the reset password functionality and turn off new user creation for a few days while people migrate over. To get the desired behavior, we could unstage all users but I think they would then get digests and mentions and would need to create an account to stop them. Am I understanding that correctly? Would making the users not staged AND inactive give us what we’re looking for? At a higher level, this could maybe be a use case for [enabling password reset for staged users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/password-reminders-are-not-sent-to-staged-users/40085). Conceptually, it makes sense that the users would be imported as staged but it would also be great if they could get some help using the email address that lets them claim their old posts. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892)._