# Prevent unsubscribe functionality for user

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-unsubscribe-functionality-for-user/208958>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 12, 2021, 9:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-unsubscribe-functionality-for-user/208958 "2021-11-12T09:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-unsubscribe-functionality-for-user/208958/2 "2021-11-12T11:23:13Z")

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> [@Wurzelseppi](#):
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> Now I created an user in the community with that distribution email address and subscribed to the Support Category

Your best solution is to see that the support staff are discourse users and subscribe them. If those people aren’t members, what good does it do to have them get those emails?

> [@Wurzelseppi](#):
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> My question is now if can prevent the recipients of this email getting this posts as email to unsubscribe over the link which comes with every email ?

It’s a terrible idea, but I started a plugin that would do just that (for a project that was a terrible idea.) I can’t remember the status of it, but it’s possible to create such a plugin.

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