# Personal message only certain users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-only-certain-users/280607
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** personal-messages
**Created:** [September 30, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-only-certain-users/280607 "2023-09-30T11:37:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Victor\_Gonzalez](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Victor_Gonzalez)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-only-certain-users/280607/1 "2023-09-30T11:37:17Z")
I’m building a community and would like to allow only private messages from certain groups only to admins/moderators, for examples users in group 1 can only message moderators & admins, not other users in group 1. Is this possible?
I’m trying to turn the messages feature into a support feature, basically.
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-only-certain-users/280607/2 "2023-09-30T12:05:51Z")
Have a look at [GitHub - pfaffman/discourse-allow-pm-to-staff: Allow private messages to be sent to staff for users who could otherwise not send private messages. · GitHub](https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-allow-pm-to-staff)
It allows all users to pm staff.
If you want it only for some groups it’ll need some changes, I think.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-only-certain-users/280607/3 "2023-09-30T12:13:48Z")
Actually, if you set the group setting `who can message this group` to ‘everyone’ it supersedes the `personal message allowed group` settting.
So if you set up a group called eg. `@support` you can have everyone allowed to send it a PM even if they cant send PMs to anyone else.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-only-certain-users/280607/4 "2023-09-30T12:15:55Z")
Aha! I wasn’t paying attention to that and think I modified my plugin after that change got made. I may need to take a look at that again.
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### Author:  [@Victor\_Gonzalez](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Victor_Gonzalez)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-only-certain-users/280607/5 "2023-09-30T12:35:53Z")
Yep I managed to get that working, thanks to both!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-only-certain-users/280607/6 "2023-11-06T21:19:04Z")
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