# Migration strategy and "account created" mail
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-strategy-and-account-created-mail/44976
**Category:** Migration
**Created:** [5월 29, 2016, 8:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-strategy-and-account-created-mail/44976 "2016-05-29T20:27:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@francescomalatesta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/francescomalatesta)
#### Post date: [5월 29, 2016, 8:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-strategy-and-account-created-mail/44976/1 "2016-05-29T20:27:41Z")
Hi everyone,
first post here. I tried to search for something useful but I did not had any luck. I need an advice about my migration strategy.
I have a forum developed by myself. A **very basic forum, no social logins, only email addresses, names and passwords**. Soon, I will need to migrate it to Discourse.
What I want to do:
- import users one by one, creating a new account for them automatically;
- send them an email to let them choose a new password;
Now, I would like to use the API calls to do this, both for users and related posts. My only question is: if the _signup_ mail is used for new users that sign up by themselves, **what the “account created”** email does?
I imagined that the “account created” email is sent when I manually create them. Am I wrong? What should I do to reach my objective?
Thank you so much for your help, in advance.
Really love this platform 😀
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### Author:  [@francescomalatesta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/francescomalatesta)
#### Post date: [5월 30, 2016, 10:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-strategy-and-account-created-mail/44976/2 "2016-05-30T10:26:49Z")
For everyone will need an help for a similar problem in the future, I figured out a solution.
1. Add every user using APIs, the same goes for topics and posts;
2. When creating the user, set the “active” field to 1, in order to have an already active user. By doing this, he/she will not receive any email;
3. Send a custom email to every user in which I notify about the migration, and invite him to change his/her password by going to the password recovery page;
4. Ta dah!
Have a nice day everyone 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [1월 25, 2019, 6:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-strategy-and-account-created-mail/44976/3 "2019-01-25T18:27:53Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2022, 4:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-strategy-and-account-created-mail/44976/4 "2022-01-27T04:00:03Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2022, 6:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-strategy-and-account-created-mail/44976/5 "2022-01-27T06:36:53Z")