The Settings tab controls how messaging works for your community as a whole — including whether residents can email each other, and whether sent messages appear as bulletins on your homepage.
Getting to Settings
- Navigate to Administer Site > Modules > Messaging.
- Click the Settings tab (visible to administrators only).
Message Settings
Allow Member-to-Everyone Messages
When turned On, any resident can send an email to the entire community from within the site. When turned Off, only administrators can send community-wide emails.
Note: This setting only affects messaging initiated from within the resident area of the site. It does not affect messages sent from the admin Messaging module.
Allow Member-to-Member Messages
When turned On, residents can send a private email to another individual resident through the site. When turned Off, residents cannot initiate private messages.
Allow Private Messages
This option appears only when Allow Member-to-Member Messages is turned On. When set to On, messages are sent without exposing either party's email address directly — the recipient receives a notification with a link to reply. When set to Off, the sender's email address is included in the message.
Bulletin Settings
Enable Bulletins
When turned On, sent messages are displayed as a running list on your community's homepage, giving residents a way to browse past communications without searching their inbox.
Archive Messages
This setting controls how long bulletins remain visible on the homepage. You can choose to never archive them, or set a cutoff such as "older than 1 month" or "older than 6 months." Messages older than the selected threshold are hidden from the bulletin list but are not deleted.
Saving Your Settings
After making changes, click Save at the bottom of the Settings page.