# Understanding email in functionality

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-in-functionality/74097>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-in-functionality/74097 "2017-11-15T11:27:42Z")\
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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 15, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-in-functionality/74097/8 "2017-11-15T13:36:05Z")

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Discourse itself doesn’t include any spam filtering (beyond checking for the auto-generated header), so even if SPF/DKIM records don’t match it should work. If you have spam checks upstream of discourse then you may run into problems.

A “better” solution would definitely be to use the API.

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