# Restoring lost posts from mails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-lost-posts-from-mails/87526>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-lost-posts-from-mails/87526 "2018-05-15T10:53:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-lost-posts-from-mails/87526/2 "2018-05-15T13:16:27Z")

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If it’s just a few posts, you can manually re-post them and use the _change ownership_ tool to assign these to the right users.

If you have too much posts for this to be feasible, building a custom tool to do so using the API might be your only option.

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