# Testing emails are sent out successfully, but invitation emails are never sent out
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-emails-are-sent-out-successfully-but-invitation-emails-are-never-sent-out/210725
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 1, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-emails-are-sent-out-successfully-but-invitation-emails-are-never-sent-out/210725 "2021-12-01T17:36:29Z")
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### Author:  [@jiayouwyhit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jiayouwyhit)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-emails-are-sent-out-successfully-but-invitation-emails-are-never-sent-out/210725/1 "2021-12-01T17:36:29Z")
Hi I encountered a weird issue. I can send out testing emails successfully in the admin widget.
However, when I tried to send invitation emails to others, the emails are never received, even if the testing emails can be sent to the same email address successfully. Could anybody help with this?
I have tried the solutions below by updating the discourse to the latest version, but it does not work:
> [@Email notifications not sent](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-not-sent/53042):
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> Some time ago the the sending of notification emails out of our Discourse installation stopped, at least it seems so. Sending emails itself works, just tested with a test email, sending out invitations works too. But under Settings / Emails / Skipped the newest entries are from 10 days ago and in the list of sent emails the newest ones are quite old too. There are about 300 users on the site, so I would think there should some email to be sent, but isn’t. Could it be any wrong setting, but whi…
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@jiayouwyhit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jiayouwyhit)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-emails-are-sent-out-successfully-but-invitation-emails-are-never-sent-out/210725/2 "2021-12-01T19:12:27Z")
Finally, I figure it out by myself.
Here is the solution:
> [@After restore, sending email invites don't work](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-restore-sending-email-invites-dont-work/183432/2):
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> Can you check that the setting disable email is set to no (it is set to yes or non-staff after an import). If you hid the alert banners via css, you may not know that after an import the emails sent with discourse are blocked until you act on it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-emails-are-sent-out-successfully-but-invitation-emails-are-never-sent-out/210725/3 "2021-12-31T19:12:46Z")
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