Is there a way for the owner of the board to disable all Personal messenger for all members?

I have members using the PM for the wrong reasons, and its too many to just disable one by one

 

or is there a plugin for this that is compatible with 4.2.3?

You can disable each groups ability to use it if you prefer ?

ACP > Members > Groups > Social tab , but this will still (if you set it all to zero) allow them to reply to existing messages.

If you really wanted to turn it off globally: ACP > System > Applications > Expand the 'system' icon on the left. In the list find "Messages" and click the green "enabled" button to turn it to a red "disabled" one. Messages are now off for everyone. A slight twist on this you can click the padlock icon and change which groups can use it, if that's easier ?

Make a note of this though as I have seen topics previously where someone has posted about messenger not working and a closer look showed it was disabled in apps.

Just to expand on the above a bit, if you wanted it per group leave it enabled (green) but simply uncheck the groups you want to deny access. I know that sounds obvious ( ! ) but it has been known to have it disabled thinking it would only disable those groups...

9 minutes ago, AndyF said:

You can disable each groups ability to use it if you prefer ?

ACP > Members > Groups > Social tab , but this will still (if you set it all to zero) allow them to reply to existing messages.

If you really wanted to turn it off globally: ACP > System > Applications > Expand the 'system' icon on the left. In the list find "Messages" and click the green "enabled" button to turn it to a red "disabled" one. Messages are now off for everyone. A slight twist on this you can click the padlock icon and change which groups can use it, if that's easier ?

Make a note of this though as I have seen topics previously where someone has posted about messenger not working and a closer look showed it was disabled in apps.

Thank you sooooooo much!!

I really appreciate it 

Just now, AndyF said:

Just to expand on the above a bit, if you wanted it per group leave it enabled (green) but simply uncheck the groups you want to deny access. I know that sounds obvious ( ! ) but it has been known to have it disabled thinking it would only disable those groups...

Nope, its members of all groups, that is one of the key things that is making hard to just do individual or just group

But again all this advice will be noted 100%

Just now, FGN said:

Thank you sooooooo much!!

I really appreciate it 

You're welcome.

My (personal) suggestion here is to leave it 'enabled' (green) and just turn off problem groups unless you really wanted to have a global "off" for it. By this I mean perhaps leave it on for staff groups but off for member groups...

Just now, AndyF said:

You're welcome.

My (personal) suggestion here is to leave it 'enabled' (green) and just turn off problem groups unless you really wanted to have a global "off" for it. By this I mean perhaps leave it on for staff groups but off for member groups...

that right there is a mistake i was about to make...thank you for this speedy reply back!!!

I will only turn off for regular members...needed that...BIG Thanks again