# Helping imported users claim their posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [4 Giugno 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892 "2017-06-04T00:44:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![JagWaugh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagwaugh/32/69335_2.png) [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\
**Post date:** [4 Giugno 2017, 9:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892/3 "2017-06-04T09:16:56Z")

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> [@fefrei](#):
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> This should make sure that users can “sign up” by trying to log in / resetting their password

Doesn’t setting them to inactive mean that they will be purged according to “purge unactivated users grace period days”

We have a large number of “dormant” accounts, post import. We don’t want them purged (and we don’t want email summaries going out to them), we’d like to leave them “on deck”, but dormant.

We could eliminate some of these “dormant” accounts if there were a “merge users” facility, but we’d still be left with the accounts and posts of users who are in many cases no longer with us.

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