I installed the latest dev and got two like this in my inbox (the other one is george.foreman@example.com)

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    retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

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#4 no_mail_demo_users-1855548-4.patch551 bytesmmilano

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lisarex commented

Rather, george_foreman@example.com

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Mr. Nx commented

I get those messages everytime i comment on any contents. I think it is the fault of the invalid e-mail address provided for the test users whom the system tries to inform of new activity on their subscribed contents via e-mail.

EDIT:
Yes, i tried and tested by allocating real email addresses to the default test users and the return mails appears no more.

e-mail notifications by default shall be disabled to avoid those system generated messages

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ezra-g commented
Title: Upon installation, 2 returned emails appear (default content) » Prevent Demo users from receiving emails from the site
Priority: Normal » Major

Bumping to major and re-titling to reflect the action item here.

Thanks for the report!

We could exclude these users from receiving emails by implementing hook_message_subscribe_get_subscribers_alter().

However, this feels like code that's pretty specialized to sites that have demo content.

It's worth considering creating a commons_demo_content() module, moving our bit from commons_install() to a hook_install() function for that module and implementing hook_message_subscribe_get_subscribers_alter().

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mmilano commented
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new no_mail_demo_users-1855548-4.patch551 bytes

Since example.com is an officially reserved domain for testing/documentation anyway, what do you think about this approach?

It would also support a case where a test user @example.com got added later.

/**
 * Implements hook_mail_alter();
 */
function commons_misc_mail_alter(&$message) {
  if (strstr($message['to'], '@') == '@example.com') {
    $message['send'] = FALSE;
  }
}

I understand where you're coming from as far as a separate demo module though.

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mmilano commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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ezra-g commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

Great point. Committed. Thanks!
http://drupalcode.org/project/commons_misc.git/commit/dbc21f9

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

lisarex’s picture

lisarex commented
Issue tags: +user experience

Tagging with 'user experience' to track usability studies

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ezra-g commented
Version: » 7.x-3.x-dev

Restoring 7.x-3.x version property.