The system account on my play install had the email no_email. As an admin, I tried changing it, but misspell it. When I tried to change it again, it tells me “We’ve sent an email to that address. Please follow the confirmation instructions.” What now?
Is it a bug? Shouldn’t the system (or whatever one decides to rename it to) be exempt of email confirmations/verifications?
I wasn’t changing it, even though I wrote “changing.” My mistake. What was on the email field, no_email wasn’t an email address, so I was simply setting an email for it. It has a little pencil icon, it allowed me to enter an email address. If I weren’t supposed to set it, why was I allowed to?
I was able to correct the incorrectly entered email (just suddenly allowed me), but email confirmation to that account is never received. Email is working fine for everything else.
I strongly recommend the system account be make really special (no preferences, nothing else). As an admin, one can impersonate system and I can see it as if it were a regular user. It seems it isn’t.
I did indeed do that (the site contact username is me).
But for official site posts (example), we change ownership to “system” to make it clear that they represent the site and are not personally related to any one admin/moderator.
It would be great to continue to do so, and to have any PMs sent to “system” turn into group PMs to the moderators