anonymous access permissions for privatemsg module

Well, the thing is that it does not make much sense, because there is no way to anser such a message.

While we have already thought about this, it would currently not work, so we have explicitly disabled privatemsg for anon users.

Currently, we do not support it technically, so we disabled it. While I understand what you mean, I think the use case is really limited, because it is a one-way communication only, even if the celebrity wants to do so, she/he can't answer. Atleast not inside your website.

For now, I would suggest to add what I've written in another issue: A link "Register to write a message" which links to the register form and then forwards to the message sending form. This does have other advantages, for example, a celibrity can block someone who is spamming here.

Setting the correct category, this is a new feature, not a support request.

I hope there will be an Anonymous Privatemsg soon. I need it for my upcoming project. Anyone knows where and how i can edit the Privatemsg module for this purpose?

Thanx in advance.

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Radin@R-Man
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I can see the argument, but what's great is that this tool allows a way for users to really connect with other users on the site, especially wihout having to create tons of webforms, and manually setting up links, which then link to the contact forms, and blah blah blah.

What would be an AMAZING feature is if an anon user were to click the send private message (this is clearly the better way to go in order to allow privacy and help hide personal email addresses instead of just using a mailto: link) is if when the anon user clicks send private message instead of going to the general private message creation, it generates sort of a webform which is turn means the anon user has to fill out their email and name and then the message and it'll be sent. If someone wishes to respond at that point they go just go into their email and put in buddy's address and write a response, from which email they wish.

#490264: New sub-module: Site-wide contact form allows to replace contact.module with a privatemsg-based solution. It is however currently limited to the site contact feature of the contact module and only allows to write to a specific, hardcoded recipient list.

I think it could be extended to optionally expose a contact tab just like contact.module, but only for anonymous users.

I am therefore closing this issue as a duplicate of that one and suggest everyone interested in this to follow-up there. Feel free to contact me directly if you want to sponsor that feature, I'm not really interested myself and will only implement it when I find the time and interest to do so.

Another alternative is to write a little php code and use the API to send a message.
I have a site on economy hosting (godaddy) with email delivery times of 30-90 minutes for outgoing emails, so I use this for debugging new site features.

To add php code, you need to enable the php content filter. It's recommended you do this only for admin content creators. You also need to be aware of placing a call to this API in any place where someone could abuse it, but since you're sending to only a single recipient the worst case should be that you flood your own privatemsg inbox.

Assuming you want to send to user 1 (usually the admin user) do something like this:

$msg = "Hello there";
$source_tag = "from {$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']}";
$result = privatemsg_new_thread( array(user_load(1)), "Browser visit {$source_tag}", $msg, array('author' => user_load(1)) );
// If you wanted to show an error, uncomment the following:
if (!isset( $result['success'] ) || !$result['success'])
{
  printf( "<p>Failed to send: %s</p>\n", $result['error'] );
}

Note that I've also explicitly loaded the sender, since you can't send from anonymous.