How do I send an automated message as System or Discobot?

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Is there any way I could send a user an automated message from the “system” or “discobot” user? This would not be timed or anything, it would just come from the system.

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You can impersonate the system user at https://SITE/admin/users/-1/system

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Okay thank you very much.

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I just tried to do that, it just brings me to editing the system’s profile in admin view.

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Scroll to the bottom:

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EDIT: Oops. You said “automated.” I’m not sure how to do that. You might be able to do a timed post? What are you trying to do?

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Ah thank you, did not notice that.

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Doesn’t matter, I can send it myself.

I don’t see it anywhere :laughing:

Here is what I see: Screen capture - 7fb63722650535b0856b3d224816aa52 - Gyazo

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Final reply
I think you just cant do it on the system account because I can do it on other accounts.

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Hmm. I did it on one of my sites, so I don’t know why you can’t. Maybe because my email is in DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS?

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What do you mean is in discourse_developer?

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In app.yml is

  DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: 'me@example.com,you@example.com'

It might be that you need to have your address there to impersonate a system (or admin?) user.

To stop impersonating you must log out. Typing ZZ is the easiest way.

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I removed that question from my post as I figured out to just lo out.

I am part of the open-source plan at Discourse, so I don’t have access to the system logs. Should I ask them via email to do it?

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Oh. That explains it. You probably just can’t impersonate admin users.

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Yeah, I might just make a new account and give it the same permissions as the system role and name it system or something like that and control it that way.

Also I’m sorry to be a bother but my one user really is begging me to fix: this issue. Can you help me out with that?

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Two things you can do:

  • Generate an “All Users” API key and make the posts using api_username=system.
  • Create the post under a regular account, and use the “Change Ownership” feature in the post wrench menu to give the post to @system.
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