Restored from backup, but email disabled?

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I do a daily backup and daily copy-off-server for my forum. Which is good because the VM died hard. No ssh, and no better after a forced reboot. So new VM spun up and new Discourse install. And restore from backup successful.

End of restore log:

[2022-04-15 06:41:18] Reconnecting to the database...
[2022-04-15 06:41:23] Reloading site settings...
[2022-04-15 06:41:24] Disabling outgoing emails for non-staff users...
[2022-04-15 06:41:30] Disabling readonly mode...
[2022-04-15 06:41:30] Clearing category cache...
[2022-04-15 06:41:31] Reloading translations...
[2022-04-15 06:41:32] Remapping uploads...
[2022-04-15 06:41:33] Restoring uploads, this may take a while...
[2022-04-15 06:43:14] Posts will be rebaked by a background job in sidekiq. You will see missing images until that has completed.
[2022-04-15 06:43:14] You can expedite the process by manually running "rake posts:rebake_uncooked_posts"
[2022-04-15 06:43:42] Clearing emoji cache...
[2022-04-15 06:43:43] Clear theme cache
[2022-04-15 06:44:24] Executing the after_restore_hook...
[2022-04-15 06:44:25] Cleaning stuff up...
[2022-04-15 06:44:25] Dropping functions from the discourse_functions schema...
[2022-04-15 06:44:27] Removing tmp '/var/www/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2022-04-15-062817' directory...
[2022-04-15 06:45:15] Unpausing sidekiq...
[2022-04-15 06:45:16] Marking restore as finished...
[2022-04-15 06:45:20] Notifying 'adminperson' of the end of the restore...

But I see a banner that says Outgoing email has been disabled for non-staff users. and see that in the log.

What’s going on there?

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After the restore, the mail is temporarily disabled while discourse catches up to prevent duplicate notifications being sent to users.

You can re-enable emails by going to settings after an hour of restore and it is generally fine.

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The first thing I did after seeing that was search for an email setting. It didn’t come up. Is it surpressed while the background rake jobs run or something? (Only a single email setting showed up for a search of “email” then, now I get thirty or so.)

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