I recently installed Discourse on Linux, and I had a user contact me via another means saying that he tried to send me an email via the messaging service on Discourse and that I didn’t respond. I started playing around with the messaging function to see if could figure out what was happening and w…

It is intended, see the announcement: Send a Personal Message to an Email Address [image] srwsol: I consider that to be a big security risk as it appears that any user could send email to anyone and they would receive it from the email address of my Discourse server. This is true of most pla…

No, it does not impact invite emails as those do not expect a response.

[image] awesomerobot: Automatically create staged users Thanks very much for the assistance! The setting works.

Personal messages can be sent to email addresses?

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srwsol February 12, 2021, 7:01pm 3

Will that disable the “invite” function as well, as I do want to use that, at least for someone with moderator or admin authority.

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Personal messages can be sent to email addresses?

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