Hello, I’m building a plugin and I need to send something to a user’s email. I use creator = PostCreator.new(test_user, { target_recipients: "someone@toto.com", archetype: Archetype.private_message, subtype: TopicSubtype.system_message, title: "Hello test subject"…

TL;DR use target_emails not target_recipients Note that target_recipients is a parameter to PostsController, not an argument for PostCreator. That controller figures out if the recipients are users, groups or email addresses and then eventually passes it as target_emails to NewPostsManager and it e…

According to the specs, that should take a group name or a username: spec/requests/posts_controller_spec.rb 7019dbcfe it "can send a message to a group" do Group.refresh_automatic_groups! group = Group.create(name: "test_group", messagea…

Hello Robert, That’s weird because on the front end, Discourse uses a payload like this and it is working (tested with my private email) : raw: Again a message content here. title: Hello there general kenoby archetype: private_message target_recipients: j.doe@something.com I found it weird that …

Thank you ! That was it :slight_smile:

Send PM to an email adress from a plugin

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Luicid (Luicid) October 2, 2023, 1:00pm 5

Thank you ! That was it

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