ISSUE SUMMARY: I would like to allow the public viewing member profile to use message feature to contact member. How can i do this?


STEPS TO REPLICATE:
1 Public tries to contact member on profile page
2 Public presses "Send Message"
3 Pop up asking for Public to login or register.
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RESULT
EXPECTED RESULT
1. public presses "send message"
2. popup to send message NOT asking to login or register
3. public can send message to member
BROWSER

Hi, Julius.

No, this can't be done. Most of activity in Joomla! is based on user ID.
Guests don't have ID (or rather their ID is 0... for any guest).
So no communication can be made for user ID 0.
Why? Imagine a guest 1 (ID 0) send you a PM.. then... to who do you answer as guest don't have inbox? Or who is a real recipient as all non logged in users have the same ID = 0?

do you know of another way to achieve this? Is there an app or mod or plugin that could allow a way for the public to contact members? This can be achieved just like joomla contact form with captcha. public puts message and their email address. member gets message and can see where it came from and reply =)

Thanks Michal

HI, Julius.

This could be done by customizing a module extensions.joomla.org/extension/rapid-contact
It's easy to use and customize.
All what you need is to:

1. Customize module so it will check current profile Id in db and insert email into recipient field.
2. Assign module to profile page

So it will look like a contact form on profile page.

But sorry, I can't provide you with step by step instruction as this is beyond our technical support. Consider to ask a professional developer for help: www.upwork.com/groups/jomsocial

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction Michal =)