# Prevent email addresses from being counted as mentions
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 11, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763 "2016-01-11T18:30:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@damien](https://meta.discourse.org/u/damien)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/1 "2016-01-11T18:30:30Z")
Hi there,
Is there any built-in way to prevent this behaviour or is a plugin ?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/2 "2016-01-11T18:33:04Z")
Not sure I understand what you mean since emails aren’t counted as mention (test: foo@damien.bar).
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/3 "2016-01-11T19:29:38Z")
I think he means that email addresses are counted against the `max_mentions_per_post`.
I can’t test it right now, but I think I noticed this too some time ago. Not sure if it still happens…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/4 "2016-01-11T23:18:08Z")
Aha if we can repro that we should fix @techapj.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/6 "2016-01-12T01:55:28Z")
Seems to be fixed.. I could do that as a new user on try .. [http://try.discourse.org/t/this-is-alot-of-emails/356](http://try.discourse.org/t/this-is-alot-of-emails/356)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/7 "2016-01-12T01:56:48Z")
Yeah this is bust … tagging as a bug
[1@test.com](mailto:1@test.com) [1@best.com](mailto:1@best.com) @best @not
```plaintext
Post.find(162234).raw_mentions
=> ["test", "best", "not"]
```
There should be 0 raw mentions on my post here cause nobody was mentioned.
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### Author:  [@damien](https://meta.discourse.org/u/damien)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/8 "2016-01-12T08:45:02Z")
Exactly, sorry I could not provide more input.
I could not see any post or issue related to this problem, and I thought that may be related to some misusage of the application in some way eheh
Thanks for the quick answer!
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/9 "2016-01-12T08:53:48Z")
This is now fixed 🍕
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/96aa5b865ffc50e7ba25f343c0cfeed967552353](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/96aa5b865ffc50e7ba25f343c0cfeed967552353)
Thanks @damien for reporting that issue 🙂
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763/10 "2016-01-12T08:53:50Z")