Contact: a way for users to get in touch
The contact module helps people get in touch with one another and with you or the people running your site.
Through personal contact forms users can send one another e-mail. And through site-wide contact forms users can send e-mail to the people in charge of your site.
With either form, users can specify a subject, write their message, and also have a copy of their e-mail sent to their own address.
Through contact forms, users allow themselves to be contacted yet keep their own e-mail addresses private.
You can enable the contact module on the modules page (Administer >> Site Building >> Modules).
Users (in their account settings) can turn their personal contact forms on or off. When their form is turned on, a contact tab appears in their user profile, for everyone to see. (Privileged users such as site administrators can contact even users who have turned their forms off.)
When users view their own profiles they won't see their contact tab. Only other users will see it, if it's turned on.
Your navigation menu can show a link to your site-wide contact form. Just enable the "contact" link on your menus page (Administer >> Site building >> Menus). You can add that link to any other menu as well. (Click "add menu item," and when you fill in the "path" field on the dialogue page just enter "contact.")
On the contact administration page (Administer >> Site building >> Contact form) you can set up "categories" of site-wide contact you'd like to receive. For example, one category might be "website feedback," and another might be "product information."
For each category, you can specify whom you'd like to have receive your user's e-mail. The mail could go to one person or many. You can also specify whether or not the user will receive an automatic reply.
The settings portion of the contact administration page offers you other options. You can specify what message you'd like to show on your site-wide contact page. And you can limit how many times a user can contact you in an hour. You can also set whether users have their personal contact form enabled by default.