Hello peeps.

Since you're all bored in here I might as well throw in a bone to chew on. I have the final PM hack installed on 5.45c and it works fine - with one minor exception. Every time it hits the limit of 30 messages that I've set, the autodelete kicks in, but it stops with an Internal Server Error. (Which doesn't really provide much clues as to what's wrong.) And, of course, from then on every time you try to open the inbox it'll try to autodelete, and crap out. So you have to be really fast to catch it and stop loading before that kicks in, and manually delete messages.

Everything else, including normal deletion works without any problems. The only problem is autodelete. It's the only thing on my boards that does not function 100%, and while it's not really a major issue, it'd be even better if I could get this fixed so that everything would be working perfectly.

So, any ideas what I could do?

Auto-delete has been known not to work. Can you turn the feature off?

Nope, not that I know of... I suppose the only alternative would be to set the limit to 9999 messages or something...

That has never worked, Ive had a look at it myself looking for a quick fix, but its not easy.
I gave up as I didnt have time to sit there and try and work out how the autodelete works.

i think the problem is the runtime of the script...

can you send me the script via mail? then i can try out what is the matter...

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by BassTeQ:
That has never worked, Ive had a look at it myself looking for a quick fix, but its not easy.
I gave up as I didnt have time to sit there and try and work out how the autodelete works. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Damn un-finished hacks. Some still have those annoying bugs in em.

joking-down, I'll send it to you ASAP. Do you only need privatedelete.cgi? (I think that's all there is of the delete script. There are many other files in the hack though, and some modification of core ubb files is necessary.)

Kinda weird that this never worked and no one even bothered to mention it in the docs.

Gladius, Id recommend sending all the files, this way it helps when you are trying to work out the flow of the scripts.

Cheers

Gladius, Id recommend sending all the files, this way it helps when you are trying to work out the flow of the scripts.

Cheers

He already let me know which others he needs too... I suppose if nothing can be done to fix autodelete, it wouldn't be hard to implement a limit so that once you reach the set amount of messages you can't receive any more until you delete some?

Yeah I dont think that would be too hard, you would just need to check the username.count file, and dont let the user send a message if their count is higher then X.
Actually Ill have a look at that soon and let you know the results!

autodelete works !
the only Problem occurs on Unix machines while executing the autodelete part in privatedelete.cgi but the PM are deleted. On Windows NT all works fine

I also found a problem when configuring the settings to "no outbox". In this case the PM's which are sent should not be stored in the .db of the sender (I think so!?) but it's stored everytime and the autodelete will not work when "no outbox" is configured. I found this error on my board for some users who has configured "no outbox" with 4 PM in the inbox and 300kb big $username.db !

autodelete from PM 3.8 only works when configuring "single page". all other configuration will not be autodeleted !
I coded the last 8 hours on PM 3.8 to get rid of the problem.

When my "betatest" are finished I will post the modifications to get it run

That would be great, let us know how you go.

Autodelete never worked for any setting, anywhere on my UNIX server.

Anyway, that guy that I mailed above never got back to me after I sent him the files so I'm supposing he's not working on it, so BassTeQ, I'd welcome your solution. (Or this new one, if it doesn't require a new install of the PM hack.)

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delete code because it dosen't work...

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tomorrow i check the code again....

i found no error in the code...
i think it's a timeproblem on a unix-server. try to limit the PMs a user can receive

Can't find the solution either. Is the author of it still around? He'd know his hack the best.

I tried that, but he's not supporting it any more. So, BassTeQ, wanna give it a shot?

Ok, Ive done some coding, and my solution was to not let the user send any messages if their message count exceeds the maximum. They must delete excess messages to be able to send a message. So it forces them to clean up their inbox

If you want the code let me know.