Limiting Private Messaging

[Godsongz]

Here's what I'd like to do...  Admins can send/receive PM's with any member, but members can only PM an Admin and not each other.  Is there any easy way to do something like this?

[Godsongz]

Along those lines, I might be able to accomplish the above goal by making edits so that all PM's automatically go to the Admin, removing the "To:" input box entirely, no?

[Kindred]

no, there is no easy way to do it...

yes, you could change the source to remove the to box and send it directly to user 1... or to all admins - but only by adding the individual admin IDs into the code...

[Godsongz]

yes, you could change the source to remove the to box and send it directly to user 1... or to all admins - but only by adding the individual admin IDs into the code...

I'm ok with that.  Any idea what I need to change?  PersonalMessage.php is a big chunk of code.

[Kindred]

actually, I think you'd go to personalmessages.template.php

of course, you may have to change it in multiple places, since there are several places to send PMs to users...