All of the sudden my PM script has gone nuts
I get a error when I try and reply to a PM someone has sent me... Any clues?

What error do you get?

that would probly help eh...
I'll get back to you

how stupid can I be
anyhow the error...
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Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@metallifukinca.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

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better add fowarding a PM to this error too

Maybe try deleting some PM's from the "private" folder in your FTP.

can you do that ? and why would that matter ?

I don't know any other reasons it could just stop working...

nope that didn't work

Maybe try re-uploading the PM files are re-chmodding.

There are limits as to how many PM's a user can have and I THINK if a person goes over that limit this error can occur. Whenever I've seen it, I would delete the "extra" PM's or have asked my users to do the same and it seemed to correct the problem. I never deleted via FTP though...

Try setting the configured auto-delete and auto-delete warning limits to much higher values. At least that will tell you if it is related this aspect of the PMs.

Do you get this error when sending a PM to any user or just some users?
Check your servers error_log for a more detailed description, also try using the carp module in perl to display a proper error to the browser insted of the internal server error message.

Let us know how you go.

I've deleted all the PM via ftp, still got error
We don't get this error when we send PM, we get it when we try and reply/forward a PM

and BassTeQ I have no clue to what your talkin about
Sorry but I'm not that good with cgi-bin/perl

He meant check the error log so you can see where the error is coming from.

and that would be where?

You will have to ask your web host where the error_log is stored, and if its viewable to you.

Also what I said about perl, simply add this line use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');
around the start of the cgi script thats giving you the errors.

do I put that line in "privatesend.cgi" ?

Yes put it after the Perl path at the top.