# When forwarding emails to forum, staged user is not the original sender

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-forwarding-emails-to-forum-staged-user-is-not-the-original-sender/122618>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-forwarding-emails-to-forum-staged-user-is-not-the-original-sender/122618 "2019-07-11T03:58:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pad\_Pors](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pad_pors/32/52016_2.png) [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-forwarding-emails-to-forum-staged-user-is-not-the-original-sender/122618/1 "2019-07-11T03:58:15Z")

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consider this case:

- user A sends an email to admin, (allowing him to inject his email to the forum)

- admin forwards the email to the forum,

- a topic is made in the forum with “ **admin’s email** ”, while the topic owner should be “ **user A** ” email.

- and since user A is not created in the forum, admin can’t even change the owner of the topic to the real owner.

I remember it used to be the other way creating a user based on the original email sender, shouldn’t it work the same now?

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