Thats some clever thinking BassTeQ.

Of course I want the code. Glad to see my idea worked out!

I'll PM your my mail.

Ok, in privateseng.cgi

Find:
Thats pretty much it!
See how that works for you

Thanks, I'll try it out and let you know. Btw, where do you check your own PMs on this board? I've searched all around but couldn't find a PM strip even on the front page of the boards.

Hmm, wait. What message does someone who wants to send a PM to someone with a full inbox get?

This will come up:

The allowed limit of messages you can store is (Number of PM allowed here) You cannot send any more Private Messages until you delete old ones from your Inbox/Outbox.

Um... I can see that being OK for the one who is trying to send more messages while already having his inbox/outbox full.

But what about when someone is trying to send someone with a full inbox a new PM? What notification does the sender get then? Because I see only one notice in the script there, where there should be two, one for someone trying to send OUT of a full inbox/outbox and one for someone trying to send TO a full inbox/outbox. Or did I get something wrong?

The code only applies to privatesend.cgi.
So the person with a full inbox/outbox can still receive messages, he/she just cant SEND them!

Sorry I got that mixed up Gladius. I thought you meant the sender not the reciever.

No problem. Glad we got that cleared up. Very elegant solution, I think.

I'll install the hack later today.

Ok, implemented it. Seems to work like a charm. Thanks!

Glad to hear it, one small bug which I found in it, was having a problem when replying to messages.

Look in my code above, where it says

Enjoy!

Heh, that's great. I just came here to report this same thing and you've already got it.
Thanks again.

Hmm, here's another more or less bug (or oversight), but I suppose this is from the original hack... When you're not logged in (i.e. unregistered or unrecognized), and try to send someone a PM from their profile or post via the http://etc.etc./privatesend.cgi?sendto=UserName , the server will return an internal server error.

Is there any way to turn this into a notice that you're not able to send PMs unless logged in or registered? So that it doesn't seem broken to unreg'd/unrecognized users. Just a task for the local code wizz's.

Do you mean a PM or IM, because they are two different hacks?
I think you mean PM, either way all you would have to do is check for a valid cookie on the users side, and if it exists show them the msg screen, otherwise show them an error message ?

Ill a play with my board and see what I can do.

PM only currently... but I do intend to install the IM hack on it too. (It requires PM first afaik.)

So if you come up for a solution for both (if the same thing happens with IM), it'd be cool.

Ok, im a little busy at the moment buy when I get some spare time Ill look into it

Ok found a bit of spare time
Heres the fix

In privatesend.cgi find:
Ive tested it and it works fine.

Great stuff... I really appreciate your work. Thanks.

Here... Installed it and it works fine.

Oh btw... Could you do another small fix? The ' character like in "Topic's Title" is simply ignored by PM for some reason... It'll show in the subject line as "Topics Title". I got this when I try to PM someone from inside a topic that has such a subject.

Hrmm thats strange, I just sent a test PM on my board with ' in the subject like. ie
subject: this's a's test's

and it worked fine