# 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:** [Janeiro 11, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-email-addresses-from-being-counted-as-mentions/37763 "2016-01-11T18:30:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [Janeiro 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")

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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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