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Disable EMail-sending for users

Started by demlak, January 03, 2013, 01:42:31 PM

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demlak

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Disable to send EMail with Forum-System for Users lower than Admin

Disable activation of this function for each user by removing option out of "Register Page" and "Profile Edit Page".
-> no one is able to activate this feature
-> if no one is able to activate this feature, no one is able to use it (only admins are still able to use it globaly)

drawback:
people who enabled "Allow users to email you?" before this mod is installed, can not change this feature anymore.
Mod needs to be disabled to change this option in profile.


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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

NanoSector

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ms_ukyankee

Excellent, thank you. :)

I think this is the query to set everyone's profile to hide email:

UPDATE `smf_members` SET `hide_email` = 1 WHERE `hide_email`=0
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NanoSector

Quote from: purplepaisley68 on January 07, 2013, 01:46:59 PM
Excellent, thank you. :)

I think this is the query to set everyone's profile to hide email:

UPDATE `smf_members` SET `hide_email` = 1 WHERE `hide_email`=0

That should work, yes :)
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OCJ

Nice... this saved me a lot of manual edits done previously.

Oscar the Grouch

Quote from: purplepaisley68 on January 07, 2013, 01:46:59 PM
Excellent, thank you. :)

I think this is the query to set everyone's profile to hide email:

UPDATE `smf_members` SET `hide_email` = 1 WHERE `hide_email`=0


how do you do this. im still kind of new to this stuff

demlak

you have to go into your database.. for example by using "Adminer 4.2.1 for MySQL"

ms_ukyankee

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on March 25, 2015, 08:10:31 AM
how do you do this. im still kind of new to this stuff

If you have Cpanel hosting, you will probably already have PHPadmin to access the database.
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pocttopus

Is it possible to block sending emails for a specific user, not for all members?

lostpathway

This isn't entirely a fix, but you could place that individual user into a unique forum group and change the permissions of the group to restrict the number of private messages they can send. 0 = unlimited, so may have to limit it to 1. Not sure if that will work for you, but maybe.

pocttopus

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Quote from: lostpathway on November 08, 2017, 08:38:26 AM
This isn't entirely a fix, but you could place that individual user into a unique forum group and change the permissions of the group to restrict the number of private messages they can send. 0 = unlimited, so may have to limit it to 1. Not sure if that will work for you, but maybe.
Sure it would be helpful advice.:)
I am trying to figure how can I restrict that group a permissions for not allowing sending emails.

I don't want to send mails, not even 1.

dalslandan

Works well. However there is 1 flaw. During the registration, the POST can be successfully altered with manually inserted HTML code.
To fix this issue, you can find and change the following:

Open Register.php, and find:
// By default assume email is hidden, only show it if we tell it to.
$_POST['hide_email'] = !empty($_POST['allow_email']) ? 0 : 1;


Replace with:
// Email is always hidden by default, when registering.
$_POST['hide_email'] = 1;


Changed the comment, to reflect the new code correctly.

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