Need help with PM settings

[wynnyelle]

I really, really hope I can get some help with this one. I have a pretty bad problem.

My PM inbox gets flooded daily with dozens of PMs from people on my site. I cannot keep up with them. But if I turn them off, reported PMs by members being harassed or spammed or something that I need to know about, also don't come through. So I am being forced to keep the PMs on and endure this flooding which is taking away a lot of my time offline, just so I can receive the PM reports.

I need to set my PM inbox up so I still receive the reports from anyone, but that only my buddies/friends list can actually send me PMs outside of that.

Please help...I am desperate. How do I do this?

[ziycon]

Can you not just ban the users that are mis-using the PM feature? Sounds to me like the type of users you wouldn't want around anyway!?

[margarett]

If you go to your profile --> Personal Messaging, you can choose:
"Receive personal messages from: "
In that list there is "Buddies and Administrators only"

Did you try this?

[kat]

My PM inbox gets flooded daily

I can relate to that!

[wynnyelle]

Can you not just ban the users that are mis-using the PM feature? Sounds to me like the type of users you wouldn't want around anyway!?

but there are dozens every day...sometimes over a hundred...no, i want my life back

Yes I tried buddies and admins only but then it only sends me reports from buddies and admins, not other people.

[ziycon]

Are they spam users or genuine users?

If there spam users look at the mod section of the site here and have a look at httpbl mod.

[emanuele]

Yes I tried buddies and admins only but then it only sends me reports from buddies and admins, not other people.

* emanuele feels this is a bug.

@ziycon: being admin on Wynny's forum you can imagine that *several* people will want to PM you for any kind of matter (even not useful one).

I was going to suggest: use the PM rules (you can create rules to "filter" PM), though I just noticed that the most important is missing: "is not buddy". And anyway I suspect rules would affect reports too... meh.

[Arantor]

Rules apply when you visit your inbox and subsequently to all active inbox PMs.

We need to figure out what to do with that.

[emanuele]

Are you sure?
I think the "delete" rule is applied when the PM is sent (but I'm not sure, I seem to remember a comment in the code along the lines "if the member doesn't want it useless to send it").

[Arantor]

It's the sole reason is_new exists in the PM tables. Messages get added to the table marked is_new and get processed when going to the inbox (as opposed to is_read being used to see if it's unread or not)