diff --git a/services/web/app/src/Features/User/UserEmailsConfirmationHandler.js b/services/web/app/src/Features/User/UserEmailsConfirmationHandler.js
index 399c4a080d..b800e7db30 100644
--- a/services/web/app/src/Features/User/UserEmailsConfirmationHandler.js
+++ b/services/web/app/src/Features/User/UserEmailsConfirmationHandler.js
@@ -19,12 +19,6 @@ function sendConfirmationEmail(userId, email, emailTemplate, callback) {
     emailTemplate = 'confirmEmail'
   }
 
-  // when force-migrating accounts to v2 from v1, we don't want to send confirmation messages -
-  // setting this env var allows us to turn this behaviour off
-  if (process.env.SHARELATEX_NO_CONFIRMATION_MESSAGES != null) {
-    return callback(null)
-  }
-
   email = EmailHelper.parseEmail(email)
   if (!email) {
     return callback(new Error('invalid email'))