# Allow users to disable new PMs
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** new-feature, personal-messages
**Created:** [October 19, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427 "2017-10-19T18:39:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/1 "2017-10-19T18:39:02Z")
Users now are are able to choose individually if they wish to receive PMs:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/22ba70fb01899ad96c933c86a7a9a651c7abd66a](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/22ba70fb01899ad96c933c86a7a9a651c7abd66a)
Staff users are exempt from this setting, they can PM users regardless of the setting.
The setting is under “interface”:
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/2 "2017-10-19T18:40:46Z")
Nice. Can admins (and/or moderators?) over-ride this feature to message users if necessary?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/3 "2017-10-19T18:42:17Z")
If I’m not mistaken, staff (admin & moderators) are allowed to send PMs to all users regardless of the user preference. @tgxworld would need to confirm.
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/4 "2017-10-19T18:46:23Z")
[Yes](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/guardian.rb#L300). Staffs can send PM to anyone.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/5 "2017-10-19T18:48:56Z")
I updated the OP, thanks Vinoth!
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/6 "2023-03-07T15:57:07Z")
What can be wrong if I can’t found that option on my instance? I tried similar words but we still can’t disable PMs 🙂
It can be possible to enable PMs only from specific group?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/7 "2023-03-07T16:52:15Z")
The setting has recently been changed to `personal message enabled groups` so you can enable them for whichever groups you fancy. 🙂 👍
(Though I may have got this mixed up with the question you asked in chat [https://meta.discourse.org/chat/c/-/129/17116](https://meta.discourse.org/chat/c/-/129/17116), which may not be what you’re asking here. 🙂)
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/8 "2023-03-07T17:22:06Z")
Thanks! My bad, I missed what ‘groups’ means when looking for ‘enable or disable PMs’ like a bot.
> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> (Though I may have got this mixed up with the question you asked in chat [Message #17116 by JammyDodger – #chat feedback](https://meta.discourse.org/chat/c/-/129/17116), which may not be what you’re asking here. 🙂)
Tried to search that chat-post from search but no results! Please remove duplicates if need 🙏
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427/9 "2024-02-09T07:31:36Z")