I have a site where I really don’t want other members to have the capability of “reaching out” to all the other members… Forum boards are okay… But I don’t want anyone to be able to go in and send everyone a message individually. I’m in a business where clients can be stolen. I saw something that said BuddyPress has a “Member Directory.” Can this be disabled if it’s on there, and if it is, is it sort of going against installing buddypress at all? I just don’t want people having the capability of contacting everyone else. In the forums I can just delete an inappropriate post. But if they can just mass email or email members 1 at a time, I’d like to avoid that. Thanks!!!

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

Look over “Configuring BuddyPress Components” https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/
In dashboard menu BuddyPress > Components, do not enable private messaging. Other than that, anyone can request for and possibly get a response for contact information whether they post in forums or blog posts.