Message artist

Project admins can email someone who asked to join, or a member of the project, from agh. agh sends the email, so you never see their address. It's on every plan.

Send a message

• On a join request, use Message artist beside Not now and Add to project.
• In Settings › Members, use Message on a person's row. Tools can't be messaged.

Write a subject and a plain-text message of up to 5,000 characters. The subject starts out as "About your join request to …", and you can change it. When you send, a copy is saved under Messages on the join request, so every admin of the project sees who said what.

What they get

The email comes from agh's address under your project's name, such as "Moonfall via agh". Its Reply-To is your email, so a reply comes straight to you. Your address is shown to them; theirs stays hidden unless they choose to reply.

The bottom of each email says why they got it, which admin sent it, and has two links that work without signing in:

• Stop messages from this project turns off messages from your project to them, with Undo. Mail apps that show an Unsubscribe button use the same link.
• Report this message sends it to agh's operators and also stops messages from your project to them.

Limits

• Each admin can send 20 messages a day per project, or 5 on the Free and Starter plans.
• One person gets at most 3 messages a day from one project, whoever sends them.
• Days reset at midnight UTC.
• You can message someone while their join request waits, and for 30 days after you answer it. After that, or once they withdraw it, the button is off with the reason beside it. Members can always be messaged.
• When someone stops messages from your project, the button says so.

Operators can turn off messaging for a whole project after reports.

On your own server

A local server (agh serve) doesn't send email. It writes each message as a text file to the outbox folder in its data folder. In AWS, messaging stays off until an operator sets up email: see AWS deployment.

For agents: this page as Markdown is at /docs/message-artist.md, and the CLI prints it with agh guide message-artist.