This must be obvious but somehow I’m missing it. My forum is configured to only permit private messages initiated by admin and then responded to by users. Where can users view these private message threads that they’ve been involved with? Where can admin see all of their own initiated private messag…

When the enable personal messages site setting is disabled, regular users and admins can both find their PMs in their notification list. Recent notifications can be seen by clicking on your avatar on site’s header. To view older notifications, go to your preferences page and click on the Notificatio…

Looking at this again, it appears that it works for the admin if there has been a reply to the message – in which case it appears in notifications as described above. But if there has not been a reply, there doesn’t seem to be any way to access an earlier sent message in this situation, either to in…

It’s also now possible to search for these topics by using the in:messages search filter. :+1:

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L30110 March 26, 2019, 10:00pm 3

Great, thanks very much!

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