Private Message Limits

[vRSAlex]

PM limits are going to be set on Friday 14th February.  This should give everyone time to sort through important ones.

All members with over 10 posts will be limited to 75 PM's in their inbox

Traders will be limited to 250 PM's in their inbox

This should free up disc space and improve forum speeds even more.

[Hedge]

What about the Outbox?

I clear mine periodically but in theory there could be hundreds of folk with hundreds of PM's sat in their Outbox because they have the box ticked to say save a copy. 

[rich83]

What about the Outbox?

I clear mine periodically but in theory there could be hundreds of folk with hundreds of PM's sat in their Outbox because they have the box ticked to say save a copy. 

Good point. There isnt much we can do about the outbox, but by limiting the Inbox to 100/250 messages we will almost be halving the total number of stored messages.

[Hedge]

Could you make it an overall limit say 150 for both in and outbox?

[rich83]

I will look into it today but I dont think there is. 

[vRSAlex]

I'm fairly sure that the total message limit includes inbox and outbox.

[alexperkins]

Is there a way to export my pms?


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[MC71]

Let the cull begin! 

[rich83]

Is there a way to export my pms?


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Not as it stands. It would require us to install and test a third party plugin.

[brookesb32]

Is there a way to export my pms?


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Same query here as I have a lot of messages (could cull some granted, but I use them as reference on occasion)

[rich83]

Im looking into it today, the only plugin I can find so far will export PMs as XML. It would just be just as easy to physically copy and save any important PMs, or use your web browser to email the PM pages to you.

Rich

[scopes]

Just deleted a load of pm's, would be nice if the limit was raised   

[rich83]

I will discuss this with Jay and Alex, but I dont see why we couldnt come to a compromise on the PM limit. 

As Alex said in the initial post, we are doing this to reduce the size of the forum database to try and improve the speed of browsing. Capping the PMs also ensures that the database doesnt balloon out of control, as this will land us back to square one again.


Rich

[scopes]

 

[Hurdy]

Holy moly.    I have 1,144 messages just in my inbox!!!!