Answers: <p>After doing some research and comparing various documents it seems that a bot account is basically a real user account and needs a separate email account in order to create such an account as using an email account to register a new account results in, e.g.: <code>This email account is already in use</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Combined with quote retrieved from the link that is defined in the question:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>User accounts are intended for humans, but you can give one to a
    robot, such as a continuous integration bot, if necessary.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>It seems to be necessary to create a new email account if a bot account has to be created as:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>git repositories, like github, bitbucket and gitlab check whether an email account already exists if a new user is created</li>
  <li>to clarify that the user is a bot and not a human</li>
  </ol>
  
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Body: <p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
  
  <p>According to <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/differences-between-user-and-organization-accounts/" rel="noreferrer">this article</a> a user account could be given to a robot for Continuous Integration purposes.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Method</strong></p>
  
  <p>The IT department created a new email account, this was used to login to the git repository, a ssh key was created, the public key added to bitbucket and finally the jenkins user was able to create commits in bitbucket.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Problem</strong></p>
  
  <p>As the email account is only used by the robot and the robot itself is not reading emails it feels that the email account is misused.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong></p>
  
  <p>The question is whether it is possible to create a robot account in bitbucket without creating a new email account. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Discussion</strong></p>
  
  <p>If there is no separate email account how could bitbucket deviate between the robot account and an existing real user? A unique email account should be used right?</p>
  
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Title: Is it possible to create a robot account in bitbucket without creating a new email account?
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ThreadText: # Is it possible to create a robot account in bitbucket without creating a new email account?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-22)
  
  **Introduction**
  
  According to [this article](https://help.github.com/articles/differences-between-user-and-organization-accounts/) a user account could be given to a robot for Continuous Integration purposes.
  
  **Method**
  
  The IT department created a new email account, this was used to login to the git repository, a ssh key was created, the public key added to bitbucket and finally the jenkins user was able to create commits in bitbucket.
  
  **Problem**
  
  As the email account is only used by the robot and the robot itself is not reading emails it feels that the email account is misused.
  
  **Question**
  
  The question is whether it is possible to create a robot account in bitbucket without creating a new email account.
  
  **Discussion**
  
  If there is no separate email account how could bitbucket deviate between the robot account and an existing real user? A unique email account should be used right?
  
  **Tags:** bitbucket
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2017-11-26. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  After doing some research and comparing various documents it seems that a bot account is basically a real user account and needs a separate email account in order to create such an account as using an email account to register a new account results in, e.g.: `This email account is already in use`.
  
  Combined with quote retrieved from the link that is defined in the question:
  
  > User accounts are intended for humans, but you can give one to a
  > robot, such as a continuous integration bot, if necessary.
  
  It seems to be necessary to create a new email account if a bot account has to be created as:
  
  1. git repositories, like github, bitbucket and gitlab check whether an email account already exists if a new user is created
  2. to clarify that the user is a bot and not a human
  
  
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