# Staff email exposure on User Profiles
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-email-exposure-on-user-profiles/262677
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 24, 2023, 7:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-email-exposure-on-user-profiles/262677 "2023-04-24T07:38:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 7:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-email-exposure-on-user-profiles/262677/1 "2023-04-24T07:38:24Z")
Is there a ‘corporate’ public-facing mode in which all staff emails are shown on User Profiles, but non-staff emails are hidden?
If not, is there a reason why this has not been in demand?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-email-exposure-on-user-profiles/262677/2 "2023-04-24T16:13:07Z")
No, there aren’t any settings that would expose account email addresses to normal users.
A lot of the time in corporate environments they’re integrating with an existing SSO system, so exposing public email addresses, phone numbers, etc is easy to do with custom fields… I imagine that covers most of the demand for this kind of thing.
While it doesn’t involve showing an email address, I recall multiple requests to allow normal users to PM staff even when other PMs are disabled, and there’s a defunct plugin that used to enable this: [Kinder Guardian - let New members message Staff](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kinder-guardian-let-new-members-message-staff/45737)…
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-email-exposure-on-user-profiles/262677/3 "2023-04-24T16:15:05Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> exposing public email addresses, phone numbers, etc is easy to do with custom fields
That’s a good suggestion, thanks!
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-email-exposure-on-user-profiles/262677/4 "2023-04-24T16:32:54Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> While it doesn’t involve showing an email address, I recall multiple requests to allow normal users to PM staff even when other PMs are disabled, and there’s a defunct plugin that used to enable this: [Kinder Guardian - let New members message Staff](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kinder-guardian-let-new-members-message-staff/45737)…
I think @pfaffman has an updated one here:
> [@Allow-pm-to-staff](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-pm-to-staff/260946):
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> information_sourceSummary Allow all users to PM Staffhammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-allow-pm-to-staff](https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-allow-pm-to-staff)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157)Features Allow users to send a PM to staff even if they would not otherwise be able to send a PM. Configuration allow\_pm\_to\_staff\_enabled–Enables the plugin (default true) allow\_pm\_allowed\_pm\_groups–Set groups who can receive PMs from all users (default “staff”). S…
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-email-exposure-on-user-profiles/262677/5 "2023-04-24T16:35:41Z")
oh excellent! I’ve just closed the old kinder guardian topic and added a link to the new one.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-email-exposure-on-user-profiles/262677/6 "2023-05-24T16:36:16Z")
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