# Directe/privéberichten uitschakelen?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-direct-private-messages/167177
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [14 oktober 2020 om 12:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-direct-private-messages/167177 "2020-10-14T12:47:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@zeroexcuses](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zeroexcuses)
#### Post date: [14 oktober 2020 om 12:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-direct-private-messages/167177/1 "2020-10-14T12:47:31Z")
Is it possible to configure a discourse site to completely disable direct / private messages?
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [14 oktober 2020 om 12:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-direct-private-messages/167177/2 "2020-10-14T12:52:56Z")
Yes, see the `enable personal messages` site setting and also something more specific to users [Allow users to disable new PMs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-disable-new-pms/72427)
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### Author:  [@zeroexcuses](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zeroexcuses)
#### Post date: [14 oktober 2020 om 13:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-direct-private-messages/167177/3 "2020-10-14T13:17:25Z")
Sorry, I was not being clear.
I am not looking for a way to allow individual users to disable PMs.
I want a way to, as site configurator / admin / root, to globally disable PMs for everyone.
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [14 oktober 2020 om 13:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-direct-private-messages/167177/4 "2020-10-14T13:18:10Z")
Yup! I mentioned that there too.
> [@osioke](#):
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> see the `enable personal messages` site setting
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [14 oktober 2020 om 14:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-direct-private-messages/167177/5 "2020-10-14T14:57:25Z")