# Allow personal messages to staff for specific groups

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-personal-messages-to-staff-for-specific-groups/175513>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-personal-messages-to-staff-for-specific-groups/175513 "2021-01-08T15:13:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![osioke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/osioke/32/238946_2.png) [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-personal-messages-to-staff-for-specific-groups/175513/4 "2021-01-11T09:34:36Z")

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> [@wlandgraf](#):
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> Another alternative would be allowing personal messages only for people we choose or send messages to. Is it possible? I mean, disable personal messages for everyone (except for staff of course) and then manually allowing specific people that we would allow to send us a personal message (it could even be temporarily).

This would require a custom plugin, it won’t be possible out of the box in Discourse.

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