Need help to setup SSO without emails

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Thanks for your response. Jeff.

I was looking at this thread (consequences of not validating emails) and your comments in it; and I believe my situation is quite similar:

  1. I got SSO to work, and I have disabled local registrations/ log-in on Discourse. Hence, clicking on ‘log in’ on the forums redirects them to the login page of my site and after validation, they are redirected back to the forums (with the payload - including dummy, but unique, email ID).
  2. I have also disabled all emails from Discourse admin settings (thus Discourse will not be sending ANY emails at all).
  3. I haven’t set require_activation to true.

If all emails from Discourse are disabled, and I’m using SSO, will dummy emails still be an issue? And can you explain why valid emails are essential and what goes wrong with unique dummy emails?

Thanks!

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