Secure Messages ships one menu item type for the frontend.

Secure Messages - Send a Secure Message

Puts the public send form on its own page. Create it via Menus > [your menu] > Add New Menu Item, click Select next to Menu Item Type, and pick Secure Messages - Send a Secure Message under the Joomill Secure Messages heading.

The menu item has no options of its own: the form is driven entirely by the component options (recipients, field modes, captcha - see the Configuration article). If no valid recipients are configured, the page shows a notice that sending is currently unavailable instead of the form.

The message page

The page that recipients open through their secure link needs no menu item: the link works on every site. It carries a noindex, nofollow robots instruction, so search engines never index or cache secure message URLs.

Tips

• Give the menu item a clear title such as "Send us a secure message" - that is also the page heading visitors see in your template.
• Registered visitors who are logged in are recorded as the sender of their messages; anonymous visitors are recorded as guests. Both can use the form - no login is required.
• Prefer the form in a sidebar or on an existing page instead of its own page? Use the Secure Messages - Send Form module (see the Modules article).