# 如何让管理员无法查看用户的私人消息？

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [2019年五月8日 16:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-it-so-that-admins-are-not-able-to-view-private-messages-of-their-users/117191 "2019-05-08T16:52:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [2019年五月8日 16:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-it-so-that-admins-are-not-able-to-view-private-messages-of-their-users/117191/2 "2019-05-08T16:56:10Z")

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> [@dnk8n](#):
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> Are there options for that? Could that not be set as the default?

So it turns out that a few years ago we had [many long discussions about this](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-still-read-anyones-pms-by-downloading-the-database/26799). I was on your side, FWIW. 🙂

While the scenario you describe is still possible (and I don’t think there’s an audit trail) since then it’s now possible to disable all messages if the admin would like, so there’s somewhat of a workaround. Also it’s worth noting that (IIRC) the name for this feature in the UI changed from `private messages` to `personal messages` to (just) `messages`. 🤓

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