Replying to the welcome message of the system user

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The discussion revolves around a user’s query about replying to the welcome message from the system user in Discourse. mariolevitin asks how to respond to the system message and whether it’s possible to log in as the system user. JagWaugh clarifies that impersonating the system user is not possible, but messages can be viewed at discourse.example.com/u/system/messages. vinothkannans confirms the inability to impersonate the system user. JagWaugh suggests inviting the user to a private message or creating a new one to respond, explaining that the system user cannot reply. codinghorror recommends changing the site settings to send the welcome message from a human user instead, warning that this could lead to a large number of private messages.

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Hi,
I’ve just setup discourse. When a new user creates an account, she receives a message from the system user. Then I replied to this message as the new user, the reply has gone to the system user I think, but I don’t have the password for the system user. Is it possible to login as the system user. Who is supposed to answer this reply?
Thanks

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AFAIK you can’t impersonate or login as System, but if you go to discourse.example.com/u/system/messages you can see the messages to and from system.

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but how will the system respond to the these messages?

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No. We can impersonate as system user.

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It doesn’t.

You can either invite yourself into the PM, or create a new one to the user and say

Hi, I saw you replied to the welcome message from user system. System is a system account, so it can’t answer questions. I am a human, and I can (often) answer questions. The answer to your question is…

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Change your site settings, so that message is sent from your account or another of your choice.

Warning: you may end up with hundreds of PMs in your PM box.