# Admin PM to a suspended user blocked - why?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-pm-to-a-suspended-user-blocked-why/55183
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [4 Enero, 2017 22:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-pm-to-a-suspended-user-blocked-why/55183 "2017-01-04T22:33:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@soltrain33](https://meta.discourse.org/u/soltrain33)
#### Post date: [4 Enero, 2017 22:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-pm-to-a-suspended-user-blocked-why/55183/1 "2017-01-04T22:33:17Z")
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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pming-suspended-members/15276/6):
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> 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…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4 Enero, 2017 22:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-pm-to-a-suspended-user-blocked-why/55183/2 "2017-01-04T22:33:53Z")
Possible this is a regression. @techAPJ can you test and take a look later today?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [5 Enero, 2017 08:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-pm-to-a-suspended-user-blocked-why/55183/3 "2017-01-05T08:55:17Z")
Yes, this was a legit issue. Fixed via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7a1ff59822b3ad22c17b86745755ceff519b841f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7a1ff59822b3ad22c17b86745755ceff519b841f)
Thanks for reporting it @soltrain33 👍
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [5 Enero, 2017 08:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-pm-to-a-suspended-user-blocked-why/55183/4 "2017-01-05T08:55:21Z")