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title: Sending a message
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can create new messages and send them out in **My desk -> My messages**, on both the **Inbox** and **Outbox** tabs.

1. Go to **My desk -> My messages**.
2. Switch to the **Inbox** tab.
3. Click **New message**.

   ![My messages - Inbox tab](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/sending-a-message/my_messages_inbox.png "My messages - Inbox tab")
4. Click **Select** and select a recipient.

   - You can select the recipient from the contact list, from the list of your friends, or from all visible website users.

   ![Selecting the message recipient](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/sending-a-message/selecting_recipient.png "Selecting the message recipient")
5. Fill in the **Subject** field and the text of the message.

   - You can format the entered text using BBCode by entering BBCode tags directly, or using the icons above the main text area. Supported BBCode tags are explained in the [Using BBCode in forum posts](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/forums/using-bbcode-in-forum-posts.md) topic.

   ![Configuring the message](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/sending-a-message/configuring_message.png "Configuring the message")
6. Click **Send**.

The system sends your message to the recipient.