# How to notify admins of replies to posts by system user?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-notify-admins-of-replies-to-posts-by-system-user/62343>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [9 Maggio 2017, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-notify-admins-of-replies-to-posts-by-system-user/62343 "2017-05-09T09:08:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [9 Maggio 2017, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-notify-admins-of-replies-to-posts-by-system-user/62343/1 "2017-05-09T09:08:48Z")

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Is there a way of getting notified when someone replies to a post owned by the system user? For obvious reasons, I wouldn’t want to [set the `site contact username` to a real person](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-to-system-messages/51490) but I’d like to know when people reply, for example to the welcome message, a category definition or other system owned posts (yes, people do that). A similar problem might occur when people try to send messages to system, I suppose.

Options considered and dismissed (for now):

- change ownership of the topics in question
- close these topics to avoid replies

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