# 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")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [April 20, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-users-with-invalid-emails/61302/2 "2017-04-20T06:11:32Z")

</div>

As long as you don’t mark them active, that is, they must “validate” their broken email address, there should be no problem. These users must come across as **deactivated.**

If they get marked active, it will be bad, because Discourse will try to mail them.

These users won’t be able to recover their old accounts because there’s no way to send an email password reset; they will need to contact staff themselves.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-users-with-invalid-emails/61302)._