Default "Receive personal messages from" setting

[tanshin]

So I noticed that the "Receive personal messages from" option is being defaulted to "Administrators only." Is there any way to change this so the default is "All members?"

[JimM]

Have you looked at the structure of the smf_members table.  The default listed there is 1 which is All members except those on my ignore list.  Not sure how yours got changed to 3.

This query run in phpMyAdmin What is phpMyAdmin? should change your default.  I haven't tried this so be sure and backup your database before trying it.

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ALTER TABLE smf_members ALTER COLUMN pm_receive_from SET DEFAULT '1';

[tanshin]

I haven't actually run that yet, however just looking at my tables I see that the default is already set to one.

The column names for the attachment are:
Field  Type  Attributes  Null  Default  Extra  Action

[JimM]

Have you examined the table in your members file to see if the member has changed it then?  How did you determine that it was defaulting to Admin only?

[tanshin]

I noticed that mine was set to administrator only and it seemed kinda strange, so I made a test account and it was set to administrator only.

What do you mean though about examining that table?

[Arantor]

No it's an SMF bug. Go into the admin panel and enable buddy and ignore lists.

[tanshin]

Yup, that made the test account I made set to "all members, except those on my ignore list"

I take it that 0 in the tables is All Members?

[Arantor]

Yes, 0 = all members, 1 is the default which is all but ignored.

The rest the dropdown spits out Admins only is because that's option 3, and 3 > 0.

[YogiBear]

This is curious because my own forum has defaulted to Admins only but in my case is a bonus as it helps stop predators which unfortunately are fond of joining certain types of forum.

Thanks for the info on how to change it though, Arantor lol

[aw06]

Seems this bug is in 2.0rc3 as well, same happening to me.

[Arantor]

Have you turned buddy lists on?

[aw06]

yeah man, fixed the problem,

so your saying if i turn it off back every body is going to get stuck on receive email form admin only ?

[Arantor]

yeah man, fixed the problem,

so your saying if i turn it off back every body is going to get stuck on receive email form admin only ?

Yup.

[aw06]

Ok, minor bug i guess ... was abit worried thought some mod caused it, then the task to change back everybody