# Staged accounts created for bounced emails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-accounts-created-for-bounced-emails/53130>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 19, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-accounts-created-for-bounced-emails/53130 "2016-11-19T22:47:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-accounts-created-for-bounced-emails/53130/1 "2016-11-19T22:47:31Z")

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I get a few spam emails sent to my forum domain, and discourse correctly bounces these with the error email\_reject\_bad\_destination\_address. However, each time this happens a staged user account is created, which I then have to manually reject.

Is this intended behaviour?

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-accounts-created-for-bounced-emails/53130/2 "2016-11-19T23:30:20Z")

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I think this is correct, @zogstrip?

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-accounts-created-for-bounced-emails/53130/3 "2016-11-20T10:29:50Z")

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Yes, it is the intended behavior. Not all bounced emails are spam unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-accounts-created-for-bounced-emails/53130/4 "2016-11-20T10:44:22Z")

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Ah I see - that makes sense. Thanks

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-accounts-created-for-bounced-emails/53130/5 "2016-11-20T14:44:11Z")

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