When does it log "check personal message"?

[riking (Kane York)]

@longhairedboy

Is that why sometimes we occasionally see service accounts like ‘system’ in the log as having read a personal message? Possibly when they do cleanup of some kind?

That’s weird - I can confirm this happening on meta.

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This is coming from webhooks that fire when the first post of a topic is destroyed. The log is created before the webhook existence check happens, so it occurs even if no webhooks receive the topic content.

cc @vinothkannans - this was FIX: Generate webhook payloads before destroy events (#6325) · discourse/discourse@8430ea9 · GitHub, can you think of fixes for this? TopicView.new() is what’s creating the PM viewing action.