# Sending email to activate account?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-to-activate-account/42378>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [11 Aprile 2016, 7:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-to-activate-account/42378 "2016-04-11T07:36:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [11 Aprile 2016, 7:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-to-activate-account/42378/1 "2016-04-11T07:36:34Z")

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Email providers may fail to send an email. Confirmation email may lost on the way. In some conditions, polling a mailbox may much reliable rather than sending an email.

Can we have an option to let user sending an email to Discourse if polling enables. Says:

> If you still encounter a problem, send a email to ‘poll+{key}@discourse.org’ to activate your account. You may have to wait for several minutes for activation.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/8/b8f7f1e27c427a288f085353818dcc0f7a2df49f.png)

The setting generate a token for incoming activation of email and should be set to invalid after activation.

When user sends an email to that address, Discourse can confirm the validaity of email.

There’s a bunch more instruction for reading, thus:

- setting is off by default
- have to set polling

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