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Private messaging [message #31730]

Mon, 15 May 2006 20:50

peregil

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I have set "allow private messaging" to "yes".

However a lot of my users have keep getting the message "You cannot send private messages until you enable the 'Allow Private Messages' option in your profile."

For my use I have tried to simplify FudForum, and some of the pages I have disapled (like the setting page where this is an option".

It seems like this only happens to new, signed up users. The users I did a bulk import on, have all PM enabled.

Any ideas how this can be fixed?

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Re: Private messaging [message #31732 is a reply to message #31730]

Tue, 16 May 2006 00:45

Ilia

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There are 2 PM settings one is a global that allows disabling of the entire PM system and the other is a per-user local setting that allows each user to turn of PM just for their account. The error message your user is seeing is caused by the latter being enabled (disable PM system).

By default the option to recieve PMs is set to YES for all users, the only way it'd be disabled is if the user disabled it themselves.

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Re: Private messaging [message #31748 is a reply to message #31732]

Tue, 16 May 2006 08:51

peregil

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Thanks for the fast reply, Ilia.

As I said, I did disable the settings-page (I did this to easier integrate FUDforum into my system that also includes some info about the user, password recovery etc).

I have however enabled the setting-page again.

Seems like all the settings are set to "no" by default. Including the "Allow private messaging".

I can set this to "yes", but when I revisit the settings-page, it pops back to "no" again. Private messaging is not possible. Any ideas?

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Re: Private messaging [message #31754 is a reply to message #31748]

Tue, 16 May 2006 13:20

Ilia

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Are the new users who are having this problem registering via the standard registration page or did you put a custom one in place. If you are using a custom registration page you need to make sure that users_opt has the 32 bit set.

Ex. users_opt |= 32;

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Re: Private messaging [message #31778 is a reply to message #31730]

Wed, 17 May 2006 18:00

peregil

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Thanks again Ilia for your respons.

I have used the fudforum registration form, but have actuall disabled all fields except username/email/password.

I tried to enable the "optional information"-part, and created a new user. This user was able to send private messages, but was not able to change his settings.

I tried looking in the database, but was not able to get any sense out of the users_opt-value. It is identical for the 30.000 users I did import manually (4357110). I see new users are getting "4225526". It varies for the rest.

About 25.000 users have registered through this form. It seems like lots of them (all?) are unable to send private messages. Everybody seems to be unable to change their settings as well.

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