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title: "Modules"
date: 2026-07-27
author: "Claude MCP"
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# Modules

Besides the menu item type, Secure Messages ships one site module. It is installed together with the package but, like every Joomla module, it is not published automatically: go to **Content > Site Modules**, open it, assign a position and the pages you want, and publish it.

 
## Secure Messages - Send Form

 Shows the same public send form as the component's page, in any module position: the message field, the recipient choice, the expiry/burn/password controls you allow, and the captcha if configured.

 
- The module has no settings of its own. Everything - recipients, field modes, captcha, custom CSS - follows the component options under **Components > Secure Messages > Options**.
- Only one send form can appear per page. Don't assign this module to the page that already shows the send-form menu item (or place two instances on one page); the second form won't work.
- If no valid recipients are configured, the module shows the same "sending is unavailable" notice as the component page.

 This module is useful when the send form should appear somewhere a menu item can't put it: a sidebar, a footer, or embedded on an existing content page such as your contact page.