Secure Messages ships two menu item types: one for the frontend, and one for the administrator menu.

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.

Secure Messages - Messages (administrator menu)

Puts the backend Messages overview in an administrator menu, for sites that use a custom admin menu instead of the Components menu. Create it via Menus > Administrator > Add New Menu Item, click Select next to Menu Item Type, and pick Secure Messages - Messages under the Joomill Secure Messages heading.

It opens the same list as Components > Secure Messages and has no options of its own. Users still need the Access Administration Interface permission for the component to see anything (see the Permissions tab in the Configuration article).

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).