In reviewing the email log, I noticed that we would appear to be emailing an address that doesn’t have a user:
Research elsewhere shows that this was a recently self-deleted user. These log entries do predate the deletion – but there are no similar entries for other deleted users.
Just wondering how things work: does user deletion normally remove such traces?
This makes it sound like “yes”…
Also: this self-deleted user’s single post (which got deleted too) was 10 months old.
Shouldn’t this user’s self-deletion have been prevented by this setting?:
I think the 60 days define how long staff can easily delete a user. The 60 days are used in the warning shown to staff on the user’s admin page
Self deletion is based on Delete user self max post count
Thanks for the clarification, Moin. A small tweak to the Delete user max post age description could make it clearer: Don't allow staff to delete users whose first post in older than (x) days.
I’m still curious whether the address remaining in email logs is a glitch. Seems like that could be a GDPR/PII type of concern.
How long do you keep your email logs? By default those are deleted after 90 days (Delete email logs after days). I think it’s as HAWK often writes: it’s not the software that is compliant, but its use.
Yes, mine are kept 90 days – so I probably just don’t have more messages-to-deleted-users to see there.
I might have spent too much time reading threads about GDPR concerns, account deletion, etc., and took away an incorrect notion about addresses being immediately purged.
