Allows your site's visitors to send private messages to each other. Perfect for community oriented sites, such as forums and social networking sites. Many additional features are available as separate modules.
The Privatemsg module is designed to be a flexible and powerful system for sending and receiving internal messages. This includes user-to-user messages, user-to-role messages, messages from the site administrator, and much more. If you want some or all users on your site to have their own "mailbox"--and other users with the proper permissions to be able to message them through this mailbox--then this is the module for you.
- send and receive private messages on a site (between multiple recipients)
- threaded conversations (make it easier to keep track of messages and replies)
- search private messages
- tagging and filtering (helps organise conversations)
- user blocking
- e-mail notifications of new messages
The Privatemsg module allows users to send messages to each other without having to share their e-mail addresses. Once the module has been enabled, an inbox link will appear in the navigation menu. "Write to author" links are included in posts, allowing users to write private messages instead of commenting openly. Allowing users to communicate directly with each other is an important part of community building.
Optionally, users can select whether to receive email notices of new messages by editing their user profiles. The contacts list contains only users that you have previously messaged. To contact users not in your list, you need to know their Backdrop usernames. Administrators can set messaging options such as frequency of emails, message status display, and number of messages to display per page. They can also configure 'Write to Author' options.
- Go to People > Permissions (admin/people/permissions) and find the relevant module permissions underneath the "Private messages" section. If you are not logged in as user #1, you must give at least one role (probably the administrator role) the "Administer privatemsg" permission to configure this module.
- On this same Permissions page, give at least one role the "Read private messages" permission and the "Write new private messages" permission. This will allow members of that role to read and write private messages.
- Go to Configuration > Private messages (
admin/config/messaging/privatemsg) and configure the module settings per your requirements. If you have various sub-modules enabled, their settings pages may appear as tabs on this page. - Login as a user with the role specified in Step #2. Visit
/messagesto see the user's mailbox. Visit/messages/newto write a new message.
- Block user messages - allows users to block other users from sending them messages.
- Privatemsg Email Notification - notifies users about new Private Messages via Email.
- Privatemsg filter - allow users to filter messages using tags or other criteria.
- Privatemsg Limits - allows to define limits for private messages including amount of sent messages per timeframe and number of recipients.
- Privatemsg Realname Integration - provides reverse lookup for realnames - dependent on module realname.
- Privatemsg roles - allows to send message to all members of a role.
- Privatemsg Rules Integrations - integrates Rules with Privatemsg, allows to act on message events and send private messages - dependent on module rules
- Install this module using the official Backdrop CMS instructions at https://backdropcms.org/guide/modules.
- Once installed there is a new item 'Messages' in the User Menu.
This project is GPL v2 software. See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory for complete text.
- David Radcliffe
- Herb v/d Dool
- Seeking additional maintainers
Initial port to Backdrop by Graham Oliver, David Radcliffe and Herb v/d Dool
- leigh (dgtlmoon)
- Sascha Grossenbacher (Berdir)
- litwol