How can I achieve the above?

Thanks

Do you mean the "Direct Email" add-on? Or the Email field's value?

The Direct Email addon.

I have a need to make the admin and a user email links in their profiles accessible to guests but not the rest of the members. The member email links should only be viewable to logged in users.

Sorry, I'm a bit confused. On one hand, you propose that

and on the other,

Both statements exclude each other ;)

Anyway, this add-on has an option by default, in bb_plugins code you could change this:

setting it to FALSE will disallow Guests from contacting members using this add-on and it will be only allowed to registered members. May be this is what you need; if not, let me know, rephrasing your question.

Lets see if I can make this as plain as possible.

My forum had a 'contact us' and a 'contact site creator' link that used a particular form of email process that worked fine on my own server but not on the server where I moved the forum. These links I have redirected to Direct Email profile links - admin and myself, therefore $directEmailGuests has to be set to TRUE. This, though, allows access to all other profile email links to guests which I consider a problem - spam and the like, therefore I need only the 2 mentioned to be accessible to guests and the rest to logged in members only.

Sorry for the confusion.

So, let me rephrase this in a coding term :)

You have couple of links which lead somewhere from your HTML template, to profiles like this:

index.php?action=senddirect&user=1
index.php?action=senddirect&user=2 (or ID of your own account)

So when directly emailing those profiles, you want Guests would be able to post, right?
But you want to exclude Guest emailing to other accounts.

If so, you could add a little switch to bb_plugins code of this add-on, replacing

to something like:

Specify user IDs properly in the bolder code.

Let me know if it worked.

Works perfectly.

Thanks

Still a problem with the setup of Direct Email I think.

When a user decides to show their email address to members the Direct Email link doesn't show? I can't see the reasoning behind this. I would like to make the Direct Email link display whether this setting is activated or not. How to do this please?

It is logical. If someone chooses to show an email to public, then why to display a link to email through server? Let other users to contact this member directly, why to use server's resources? Didn't get the idea of it... sorry.

I can see your point but then again Direct Email is an addon to make life easier for members. So the very people who don't mind being contacted by showing their email address are the very ones who can't take advantage of the Direct Email addon?

The purpose of this add-on is to provide a way to contact a member via his email address, but at the time this email address is not shown to the contacting person. It is the add-on's primary purpose, it doesn't provide any other advantage but this.

There is no need to use server's resources, if someone's email address is clearly shown to public. Additionally, using email address in native email clients brings more safety in delivering, because email sent from PHP script could be often blocked by spam/bulk filters.