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Hello sir.

I do not want to display the contact email address in the view...

I second that.

...but want to allow a user to click the Contact's name and then send a message to the contact through a form.  Is there an easy way to accomplish this using a webform or other?

Yes I think this can be done through webform. Perhaps it would require a hidden field of some sort, or perhaps if the URL was like sendmail/x where x is the contact ID then perhaps with a few lines of PHP code (which webform allows) you could get the email using the CiviCRM API. That's probably how you would have to do it.

Offhand I don't recall the full details, but in webform there are some options for recipient email. Either it's built in or there is an add-on to be able to determine that via PHP. Using that option you could derive the contact ID using arg() or $_GET (presuming it's in the URL) and then the CiviCRM API in PHP to get the email.

This is slightly more complicated than trivial PHP I would say.

That would only work if every Contact has a Drupal user record. My guess is that they don't, based on the OP's question.

This would be a useful improvement to the webform_civicrm module if you'd like to sponsor this feature