Discourse BCC

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	Summary	Discourse BCC allows staff users to send individual personal messages to several users at once.
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bcc
	Install Guide	How to install plugins in Discourse

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Features

When enabled, you’ll see a checkbox after having added two or more recipients to a PM:

If you check that box, instead of one PM that everyone shares access to, Discourse will create 1 PM per user provided.

If you add a group, each member of the group will be sent an individual PM.

You can also use the placeholders %{username}, %{@username}, and %{name} to add message personalization for each recipient.

[md-misko]

@martin

allows staff users

Is there any chance to enable custom groups to use this plugin, similar to Changes coming to settings for giving access to features (from trust levels to groups)?

I have a use case where a course lecturer sends the same questionnaire via PM to the course participants occasionally, but wishes to receive separate responses from each one.

Being able to assign a custom group (e.g. organizers) in addition to staff to use the BCC plugin would solve the problem for them in a big way (they’re currently sending dozens of identical PMs).

[ToddZ]

@md-misko - I wonder if your need might be met by the Discourse Private Replies plugin. Basically, you’d create a course category with access for the participant group, rather than using PMs. The plugin can then keep replies to a lecturer topic hidden from other participants.

(A caveat is that any subsequent reply from the lecturer back to a participant is visible to all. Depending on your situation that may or may not matter.)

[MihirR (Mihir)]

So is it for the Messages like the mail kind of look, or both Messages and Chats?

[NateDhaliwal]

It’s only for PMs (messages).

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

I’m getting a 500 error when attempting to use this plugin, even for the simplest of messages and just 2 users.

Is anyone else having trouble?

[putty]

Yes, also getting a 500 error

[martin (Martin Brennan)]

@nathank and @putty can you give a bit more detail please, like are there any details in the Network tab in chrome or at the /logs endpoint on your site? I tried it locally and it worked:

@putty do you have it installed on your hosted site? If so I can access the logs there.

[putty]

Hey @martin!
I have good news and bad news. It is surprisingly working (), but only if I message individual users. I could’ve sworn that you could do the same group, though. Or am I misremembering the functionality?

It is deployed on my site if you want to take a look