Is it possible to see email address of a deleted user? Inadvertently a user profile was deleted as spammer. We are trying trying to find the email address to reach out to them.
Related topics is such a help.
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I don’t think there is any way to recover the email address of a deleted user. Discourse handles deleting users differently than it handles deleting posts or topics. When a user is deleted, they are fully deleted from the database, when a post or topic is deleted it is only soft-deleted so it can be recovered at a later time.
But also:
This guide explains how to recover users and their content after they were mistakenly deleted as spammers.
Required user level: Administrator
When a user is mistakenly flagged as a spammer and deleted, they are automatically blocked from signing up again based on their email address and IP address. Here’s how to restore access and recover their content.
Finding the deleted user’s information
Go to Admin > Logs > Staff Action Logs
Search for confirm spam an…
Heliosurge
(Dan DeMontmorency)
August 1, 2025, 1:41am
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You might or might not be able to see it in system logs. At one time you could see the deleted email address.
If you could see it, it won’t be GDPR compliant.
I couldn’t find the email address. Thank you for the replies. Really appreciate all the help.