# Inactive users receiving email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-receiving-email/92100>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-receiving-email/92100 "2018-07-11T16:09:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-receiving-email/92100/4 "2018-07-11T20:23:15Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I’ve seen at least a couple that seem to be cases of a user who is not active receiving mail.

Something must be borked with your database after the import, because that’s not possible in Discourse as far as I know.

If a user is inactive (that is, their email is not known to be working and validated) they can’t be mailed by definition.

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