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Emails to addresses listed under adhoc emails are only sent if the module can verify a user account with that email has access to view the entity OR if anonymous users have access to view the content.
I find this behavior unexpected. For adhoc emails, I don't think there should be an expectation that the module does this user account lookup and access check process.
This feature was implemented in #3232943: Send notifications only to users who can view content#9 and a comment from there expressed the same. I also was previously very confused by this and created #3409111: Update notification form to indicate users being emailed must have access to view the content to at least improve the inline documentation to help avoid pitfalls.
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Proposed resolution
Let's either remove the validation for adhoc emails entirely (preferable), OR make validation configurable.
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User interface changes
API changes
Data model changes
Issue fork content_moderation_notifications-3548983
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Comment #2
bkosborneMR submitted that just removes the access check for adhoc emails. I'll fix the tests too, but before I spend time on that I'd like to get maintainer buy-in on this path. Thank you.
Comment #5
bkosborneSee also #3419565: Allow a notification to bypass the content access check where this was requested. Adding contrib credit to that patch author.
Comment #6
bkosborne