Admin PM to a suspended user blocked - why?

[soltrain33 (Noah Solnick)]

According to discussion in thread linked below, a suspended member should still receive messages from staff member.

Today I suspended a test member, then sent a message to him via an admin account. The user didn’t receive an email with the message and the email log shows skipped with the reason: “[UserEmail] User is suspended, not a message”

Thoughts why?

PMing suspended members

That’s a fair point, @neil can you make it so the PM button only shows up on a suspended user if you are a staff member? I absolutely do, yes. The entire reason we have the feature is that this actually happened – a real moderator on a real Discourse site tried to PM a user they had just suspended. It never got sent, but they thought it did… which led to a lot of real world confusion on both sides. I’m much more interested in hearing about real situations on live sites than theoretical probl…

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Possible this is a regression. @techAPJ can you test and take a look later today?

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

Yes, this was a legit issue. Fixed via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7a1ff59822b3ad22c17b86745755ceff519b841f

Thanks for reporting it @soltrain33