Any chance of increasing the Number of private messages on the system from 10 to 15 or something similar.

Or is it possible in this new board to have the body of the message sent to the registered email and provide a link back to the board to allow people to reply to the private message.

I keep getting inbox full and such a user tried to send you a private message.

Peterg70

Howdy,

Give me a few/20 minutes to check things out.

Woodmann

Woodmann

Nice look to the board

But I still see this??
Sent Items contains 3 messages.
You have 5 messages stored, of a total 10 allowed.

For christ sakes, didn't you learn anything from the last time you asked woodmann to "take a look" at the board settings?!

Wood, should we increase it you think? To what limit in that case?

Mine says I have 5 saved messages and 1000 allowed. Well aren't I "special." Of course, no one wants to talk to me, so I'll never use up my allottment.

Regards.

We cant blame pg for my incredible ineptitude. (look at the big word )
For some reason mods and admin have a 1000 limit.
I was looking around at what other boards set their PM's at and
10 seems to be a little low.

If we set it at 20 I dont want to hear no complaining.
You must understand that we have PM's limited because
of the amount of space they take up when doing a back-up
of the database.

OK, 20 it shall be.
Will the moderators make the needed changes please
(I am no longer allowed to change forum settings )

Woodmann

(I am no longer allowed to change forum settings )

Woodmann[/QUOTE]

hehe...

I haven't found where the limit is actually set.
Found it: Usergroups > Usergroup Manager -> [Edit Usergroup] > and there's an option Private Message Permissions -> Maximum Stored Messages. Now set to 20.


Wood, were you kidding about not being able to access the AdminCP?? Your user number is identified as an administrator in all the necessary listings of the config file, so there is no reason I can think of why you shouldn't have all the access you need.

I know I had cookie problems with the forum display until I actually logged out and logged back in to get a new cookie. Maybe you are having the same issue.

Regards.

Thanks for the extra messages slots. I try to keep it to 3 but sometimes you get a flux of PM's.

Peterg70

JMI, Woodmann probably just meant that he's encouraged by the other admins/mods not to go near the settings due to the horrible events that usually follow such an encounter.

As we learn our way through many of the new provisions and settings, I noticed that the private message feature has the capability to download your PM's in various formats, so there really shouldn't be the need to keep that many around on the Board. There has also been a significant savings in the size of the backup in the Gamma version vs. the Beta versions, mostly by some change in how the search indexes are kept.

As for Woodmann's "modifications", we are trying to conceal from him that new feature which asks:

Would you like to initiate total thermonuclear destruction?
Confirm or Delete?

Regards.

Only amateurs would need an explicit feature for that. Woodmann's a pro, he could nuke the server by just looking at it, even if the options page was completely empty.

You guys suck

I can access the admin settings.
This new board has so many settings it's getting silly.

Woodmann

Everyone's private message's capacity has been increased to 20

Woodmann