# Migrating users with invalid emails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-users-with-invalid-emails/61302>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 20, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-users-with-invalid-emails/61302 "2017-04-20T05:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![juli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/juli/32/121043_2.png) [@juli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/juli)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-users-with-invalid-emails/61302/1 "2017-04-20T05:49:33Z")

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Hello everyone, I think this is my first post here. Thank you for such a great product and community. I’m not sure if this belongs to the support category so feel free to reorganize my topic as you deem necessary.

I’m planning to migrate my sites from XenForo to Discourse and in my first migration test I have found some problems with my database. Before XenForo I migrated from vBulletin and before that, from UBBThreads. I’m not sure what forum software allowed this but it appears that I’m full of users with invalid email addresses that Discourse won’t import for obvious reasons.

I was wondering what are the consequences of somehow force Discourse to accept those invalid email addresses. I really don’t want to lose those users although they’re probably inactive and I was wondering if there’s something that might break different from, well, emailing to those users with invalid email addresses.

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