# Using Data Explorer to take action if an admin reads a user private message

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**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** sql-query\
**Created:** [June 7, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-data-explorer-to-take-action-if-an-admin-reads-a-user-private-message/154119 "2020-06-07T19:10:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-data-explorer-to-take-action-if-an-admin-reads-a-user-private-message/154119/3 "2020-06-07T21:26:38Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> `log personal messages views`

I’m pretty sure that turning on this setting is the answer to the question that @sunjam had.

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