# Sending messages to Patient Portal with attachments **URL:** \ **Category:** Management and Administration\ **Created:** [March 27, 2020, 11:21am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/sending-messages-to-patient-portal-with-attachments/14082 "2020-03-27T11:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![RachelEllison](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/rachelellison/32/14041_2.png) [@RachelEllison](https://community.open-emr.org/u/RachelEllison)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/sending-messages-to-patient-portal-with-attachments/14082/2 "2020-03-27T19:38:14Z")
Hi Vitaly, There is a messenger in the patient portal. I describe the table in which the messages live here: > [@Project - Hybrid App with Image Processing](https://community.open-emr.org/t/project-hybrid-app-with-image-processing/13758/32): > > There’s also the ability for patients to send messages to their providers through the patient portal. When a patient sends a message there are two copies stored in the database. A copy for the clinician and a copy for the patient. That way they each can delete, archive, etc. their copy. This is table onsite\_mail It doesn’t appear that the table is able to store a reference to attachments in the patient directory. However I believe patient documents are stored in the directory: openemr/sites/default/documents/x/filename.pdf or \openemr\sites\default\documents\onsite\_portal\_documents where x is the patient’s pid, e.g 6. So in theory if you add a column or two to the table that give you the location of a file and it’s file name you could use that to pull up the attachment from its location. @sjpadgett would know much more about the portal messenger than me. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.open-emr.org/t/sending-messages-to-patient-portal-with-attachments/14082)._