Allow-pm-to-staff

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

Yeah, it is still for logged in users.

The plugin enables logged in users who wouldn’t normally be allowed to PM people to PM people in the @staff group. Unfortunatey it doesn’t do anything for anon (i.e. those who aren’t logged in).

This is why I used this little hack:

Allow email in for moderators, staff, and admins

Well, since nobody told me that was completely stupid, I’ve gone and tested this rails command on a little used instance. And it seems to work (so far)! Use at your own risk and backup first To add an email-in address Group.where(name: "=groups.name=").update(incoming_email: "=groups.name=@=domain=") To remove an email-in address Group.where(name: "=groups.name=").update(incoming_email: nil)

I’ve used that for years without issue (except the odd bit of spam).