# Are you using a real user to send welcome messages?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [2015 年1 月 21 日 22:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292 "2015-01-21T22:35:13Z")\
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作者： ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
发布日期： [2015 年1 月 21 日 22:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292/1 "2015-01-21T22:35:13Z")

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I started off our new Discourse forum with me as the designated sender of the Welcome Message. I figured this would be a nice way to give the message a human touch, and I did indeed have a few pleasant exchanges, just like I had here here on Meta when I got my welcome message from @codinghorror

Problem is, I now have hundreds out outgoing messages crowding up my Messages. When I went there to find an exchange I needed to reference it was really difficult because all of the messages are titled the same as well!

I ended up doing the following:

1. Reset to default sender, i.e. @system
2. Give @system our default contact e-mail.
3. Set @system’s notification settings to send mail when being mentioned or receiving private messages.

Hopefully this works out.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Did you take a different route?

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