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Hi,

I've set all users email addresses to hidden by default and removed this option from the user's option panel, if I understand correctly (duhhh), if this field is sent to hidden, no one can send the users messages via their profile page? Funny, I've seen a "Send a message" link on profiles I've seen on UseBB Zone.

Dumb question but...

Gene

They can't, though I must note that only changing the input field's type will still allow users to set their e-mail address visible if they hack around the field's type (some Firefox extensions allow this, or just saving the HTML, changing it and loading the changed HTML file in the browser suffices).

Dietrich wrote

They can't, though I must note that only changing the input field's type will still allow users to set their e-mail address visible if they hack around the field's type (some Firefox extensions allow this, or just saving the HTML, changing it and loading the changed HTML file in the browser suffices).

I guess that's a catch 22, if members email addresses are set to hidden, they can't communicate privately with each other. Will a future version of useBB will have a "local mail function" such as found in phpBB? Love that feature, hides your email address but people can still send you messages.

Cheers,
Gene

OK, figured it out (duhh), to enable email even though the address is hidden, I set the E-mail view level to Enable email form.

LOL,
Gene

Hmm, this didn't work out too well, only the logged in user can see "Send a message" on their own profile but not on others, could it be the bbcode I modified?

Gene

And the Send a message links for all users appear only when logged on as Admin (along with the email address next to it)... I wonder if I messed something up when I made the code changes in post 1626. Enable email form is on but only works for admin or the user viewing his own profile, not others (great if the user wants to speak to himself. LOL).

Any ideas?
Gene

Gaia, where are you? LOL

Think I fixed it. In post_options.tpl I corrected:

// Update the user's preferences
$_POST['email_show'] = ( !empty($_POST['email_show']) ) ? 1 : 1; where 1 was 0 before.

Now, I only have to make it default, when a new user registers, it stays to 0 till he/she changes the options in My Panel then defaults to 1.

Gene

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Now, I only have to make it default, when a new user registers, it stays to 0 till he/she changes the options in My Panel then defaults to 1.

Took care of that by modifying my DB using phpmyadmin, set the email_show default to 1.

Cheers,
Gene

LOL, looks like I'm talking to myself. Sorry...

Too quick on questions... Then I find some of the answers.

Gene

You indeed need to set your users' show_email value to 1 in order to be able to send them an e-mail, even when the mail form is used.

It doesn't really hide the e-mail address either, the recipient will still see your e-mail address in the e-mail, and you will see his when you enable the BCC field.

A private message system should be available in UseBB 2.

Thanks Dietrich, can't wait for version 2 to come out. Should be a success.

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It doesn't really hide the e-mail address either, the recipient will still see your e-mail address in the e-mail, and you will see his when you enable the BCC field.

At least, when viewing a profile, all the user see is Send a message and most spammers will not waste time sending one message at a time, they rely mostly on mass email. BTW, did install Gaia's PM system, works great (needs a couple of features though, such as admin delete banned user's PM's and user delete messages in the sent folder).

BTW, love that anti-spam panel for ver. 1.7, too bad there isn't a mod to apply it to ver. 1.6.

Great work,
Gene

UseBB 1.0.7 will be released probably next month.

Dietrich wrote

UseBB 1.0.7 will be released probably next month.

Fantastic! I'm anxious to try it out.

Any more versions after that one or will you concentrate on Ver. 2 only (which is the way to go, I think, being it's a complete rewrite).

phpBB quit the ver.2 series at 2.0.22 then released ver. 3 Beta, now has everyone confused for Mods because it's a whole different ball of wax. LOL!

Cheers,
Gene

More bug fix releases may follow until a few months after the final version of 2.0.0.