Pm help.

Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 27

Sorry for all my posts, I just really need my site to be clean and clear. When I try to send PMs, I get this message:

You must specify a username to whom to send this message.

I always enter the name of the user i want to pm and I still get this message.

What can I do?

Thanks.

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Just to clarify, are they site users or admin users?

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:21 pm

Admin and site

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:29 pm

If they are the same, that's fine. But PMs only work with site users. Otherwise, if your site sends other notifications (e.g. registrations, feedback, news submitted, etc.), the forum email should work fine.

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:09 pm

Well, they are the same, and when i try to send pms, it doesn't work

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:04 am

Does the user have the settings to notify on receipt of PM?

New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

yes they have this settings to notify on receipt of PM and i see this message in the forum admin
Version Information

Your installation does not seem to be up to date. Updates are available for your version of phpBB, please visit http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php to obtain the latest version.
The latest available version is phpBB 2.0.21.You are running phpBB 2.0.17.

so i will try to update our forum and see if is that the problem

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:11 pm

I doubt the update is the problem. Is this the same problem originally described in this thread?

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:11 pm

yes is the same probleme we are trying to do a website for our clan so me and cynical are creating toggether so that is the same probs

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:00 pm

OK. Does the PM get sent, even without the notification?

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:26 pm

no its work the same error

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:28 pm

we cannot send the PM, when we try to send it, it says: "You must specify a username to whom to send this message"

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:05 pm

Sorry for jumping in but is the username you are typing in correct? Don't forget it is case sensitive. Also, does the username have any none alpha-numerical charcters in it?

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:12 pm

nope, the username is perfect... still doesn't work.

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:14 pm

We write the username correctly and the name have letter and number and the upgrade change nothing

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:25 pm

I thought you said the user received the PM, just no notification of it by email. Confused...

What Nuke distribution are you using, and what forum mods have you added, if any? Is this a new site, or a converted site?

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:31 pm

No we can't send pm
It says: "You must specify a username to whom to send this message"

nuke distribution i don'T know it was already installed

Your Current BBtoNuke version is 2.0.21 And your PHP-Nuke version is 7.9

And we have not add any mods to the forum

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:09 pm

and when we are trying to lock some post and they give us a
Hacking attempt! message

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:14 pm

Were any patches (i.e. from NukeFixes.com) applied?

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:14 pm

they are from nukeresource bbtonuke 2.0.21

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:21 pm

Oh. You updated from the previous version of bbtonuke, but neither works, correct?

One possibility is that it cannot validate the user name - check your phpMyAdmin to make sure all the tables check OK. Repair them, if necessary.

Another possibility is that somehow the username field has a different form name value that the script is expecting. I really doubt that unless someone modified a script.

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:27 pm

Hum, we don't have access to the phpmyadmin, we are hosted by a web hoster that doesn't give us access to phpmyadmin, maybe we should find another free webhoster?

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:46 pm

You can try optimizing the DB from Nuke Admin, but it would be nice to have this capability via phpMyAdmin. Can you see the error log?

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:00 am

i try to optimizing the db from nuke but that do not change anything the prob is here again
The probleme is that our free host don't want to give access to our phpmyadmin so i will see if there a other good free host with phpmyadmin

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:57 pm

Can you guys recommend us any good free hoster?