🎯 Who Is JoomPMS For?

• Community Websites - Enable member-to-member private communication
• Corporate Intranets - Internal team messaging with user group support
• Educational Platforms - Private student-teacher communication channels
• Support Portals - Ticket-like messaging for customer support workflows
• Membership Sites - Send announcements to member groups

✉️ Core Messaging Features

• Send, read, reply, and delete private messages
• Inbox, Outbox, and All Messages views
• Message priority levels (Low, Normal, High)
• Conversation threading with configurable message limits
• Message preview on hover
• Read/unread/replied status indicators
• Visual badges for priority, attachments, and CC recipients
• Search messages by subject and content
• Bulk operations: mark read/unread, delete, move to trash
• Self-messaging support (configurable)
• Auto-purge messages based on global and per-user settings
• Mobile-optimized Gmail-style template for touch devices

👥 Group Messaging

Send messages to entire user groups with powerful controls:

• Message all members of a user group at once
• Three display modes: Strict, Permissive, Dynamic
• Dynamic group access mapping - configure which groups can message which
• Support for up to 500 recipients per message
• Background queue processing for large sends
• Queue management dashboard with status monitoring
• Retry failed messages and track delivery progress

📋 Carbon Copy & Recipients

• CC feature for sending to multiple recipients
• Send to multiple users simultaneously
• Advanced user picker with search functionality
• Filter available recipients by user groups

📎 File Attachments

• Attach files to any message
• Configurable maximum file size limits
• Configurable allowed file extensions
• Secure file storage organized per user
• Download protection with permission checks

📧 Email Notifications

• Email alerts when new messages arrive
• Customizable email subject and body templates
• Template variables: {msgsubject}, {msgcontent}, {msglink}, {msgid}, {user_sender}
• Option to include full message content in notification
• Per-user notification preferences

⚙️ User Configuration

• Personal settings panel for each user
• Lock inbox to block incoming messages
• Personal auto-purge settings override global settings
• Email notification toggle

🛡️ ACL & Security Features

• Joomla Captcha integration
• Access control for creating messages (Include/Exclude groups)
• Access control for CC feature (Include/Exclude groups)
• Access control for reply feature (Include/Exclude groups)
• Access control for attachments (Include/Exclude groups)
• Receiver group restrictions
• Force sender user groups
• Force receiver user groups
• Dynamic access mapping for fine-grained control

📊 Admin Dashboard

• Message statistics (today, week, month, year)
• Recent activity overview
• Queue management interface for group messages
• System information display

🧩 Integration

• Kunena forum integration
• URL parameter routing for direct message sends
• Third-party integration support

🔧 Technical Features

• Fully responsive design
• Bootstrap framework support
• Joomla extension update support
• MVC architecture
• Full internationalization support
• Frontend notification module included