These permissions make up the Communication group within a role's permissions, and they control general access to email, SMS (text), push notification, and chat actions in the system. To review or edit them, go to Settings & Tools (Cog icon in the tool-bar) > Security > Roles, open a role, and select the Permissions tab. You'll find these options under the Communication section.
Important: any non-guest user can send an email from within the email tools.
Emails
Limited Email
Can send bulk emails to people from the People Query Builder, using their own email address.
Full Email
Users with this permission also have the Limited Email permission.
Can send email messages on behalf of another person. This only controls the "From Name" and "Reply To" email addresses. The actual email is still sent from a onechurchsoftware.com domain.
Can view scheduled emails for other users.
Full Read Email Logs
Can see emails not sent by them.
Text Messages
Limited SMS
Can send out SMS messages to individual numbers and in bulk.
Can view the list of SMS keywords.
Full SMS
Users with this permission also have the Limited SMS permission.
Can add, edit, and delete SMS keywords.
Can view logs of incoming and outgoing SMS messages.
Can view scheduled text messages for other users.
Full Read SMS Logs
Can see text messages not sent by them.
Push Notifications
Push Notifications
Can send and schedule mobile push notifications.
Chat
Full Read Chat
Can view any public or private channel without being a member.
Full Write Chat
Users with this permission also have the Full Read Chat permission.
Can post in any channel, and can create, edit, reorder, and delete any channel and category.
Chat Safety Reviewer
Can read preserved and escalated child-safety chat reports.
Group discussions are controlled separately by Full Read Discussions and Full Write Discussions, which are part of the Groups group. See Groups.