# Inactive users can reply by email
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [December 10, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544 "2015-12-10T21:29:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@roarkely](https://meta.discourse.org/u/roarkely)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544/1 "2015-12-10T21:29:07Z")
Users that are inactive do not get email notifications, which is the behavior I would expect. However, if an inactive user replies by email to an email notification they received prior to their deactivation, the message will post.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544/2 "2015-12-10T22:13:26Z")
Nice catch. Will fix.
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### Author:  [@roarkely](https://meta.discourse.org/u/roarkely)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544/3 "2015-12-15T18:41:23Z")
@zogstrip – What is the ETA for this fix to be live? We are coming to the end of our development cycle on our Discourse instance and really wish we could go live in early January with reply by email enabled. Without this fixed we cannot do that.
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### Author:  [@calejohnson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/calejohnson)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544/4 "2015-12-21T16:20:06Z")
@zogstrip – this seems to still be broken. Original estimate was end of last week. Can you please give us an update? Thank you.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544/5 "2015-12-21T16:54:48Z")
Sorry, was doing a larger refactor of our email handling code. Extracted that part and pushed it 😉
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3e923c7a4186a1391a203671074c0e5bdec006f6](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3e923c7a4186a1391a203671074c0e5bdec006f6)
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### Author:  [@calejohnson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/calejohnson)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544/6 "2015-12-21T17:51:53Z")
Ah man, I love working with you guys. Thanks @zogstrip. We’ll test it.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544/7 "2015-12-31T06:43:52Z")
Closing this topic as the original issue is fixed now.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544/8 "2015-12-31T06:43:55Z")