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Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:06 pm**

What happens when your PM box is full? If someone tries to send you a message, does the sender get notified?

I'm not sure what options phpBB has... if there's an option for "send the guy that habitually forgets to clean out his mailbox a message to let him know its full" option, it would be REALLY helpful! (or something similar. I tend to miss the little "100% full" dealie in the upper right!)

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:13 pm**

Mine was 100% full.. oops. All cleared now.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:25 pm**

Even as a moderator, no one loves me enough to send me PM's....

I will let you know when I get to 50%

Seriously, when did brown-nosing go out of style?

I think I remember once seeing a message about someone's box being full, but I might be imagining it....

If someone is close (or at least a lot closer than I am), I would be more than happy to spam their PM box as an experiment.

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:07 am**

I'm not sure with phpbb 2. With the version 3, the default option is to make the new messages wait. However, it can be set to make the new ones push the older (so they get deleted).

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:23 pm**

My box is currently 88% full. It's been 100% full numerous times, for days at a time. (I rarely delete anything).

My oldest subject is Store'N stickers (so I know if it gets deleted). Spam away, UM!

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:41 pm**

eaches full capacity the poster will receive note that the receivers box is full, i've experienced it some times with other members

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:45 pm**

Okay, I sent 14.

I tested with TT sending to me 2 identical pm's to those I sent to you... each pm was 1 % of the total allotted space. (I think this is what you call the control....)

That being the case, if it were turning the last 2 away, I got no message to that effect...

It is now up to you, to give us your results, based on how many of the 14 you received.

Scientific minds want to know.

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:50 pm**

Kup wrote:eaches full capacity the poster will receive note that the receivers box is full, i've experienced it some times with other members

Well, during the test I lost two items off the end of my message list as well. That explains why all of the *really* nifty things I'd been wanting to save have been disappearing.

Seriously now... If the system's only notifying the sender, and NOT the receiver. Can we disable this automatic erasing of the oldest messages? There's really not an option for the receiver to be notified? Somebody dropped the ball on usability in phpBB, lol!

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:55 pm**

So, i just looked through all those settings i don't touch in the admin panel... I can't change who's notified of what, but i did crank up max inbox posts to 130

Posted: **Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:02 am**

Banzai-Tron wrote:
Kup wrote:eaches full capacity the poster will receive note that the receivers box is full, i've experienced it some times with other members
Well, during the test I lost two items off the end of my message list as well. That explains why all of the *really* nifty things I'd been wanting to save have been disappearing.

Seriously now... If the system's only notifying the sender, and NOT the receiver. Can we disable this automatic erasing of the oldest messages? There's really not an option for the receiver to be notified? Somebody dropped the ball on usability in phpBB, lol!

If you have a really nifty link or something sent to you, there is the "Savedbox"

When you are reading a PM, there are two buttons on the bottom right of the text window...one for save, one for delete...

You hit Save, and that sends it to your save box......

You can access your save box at the top of your PM screen the options from left to right are Inbox, Sentbox, Outbox, and Savebox.

Posted: **Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:20 am**

Thanks UM! I had *just* noticed those when I was trying to figure out how I went from 88% full to 67% full (didn't see TT's post yet, lol!).

I'll definitely be using that Saved Box from now on! Might even get my mailbox cleaned out some!

Posted: **Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:59 am**

Or just ask me to increase your quota <G>

Posted: **Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:14 am**

If you can increase quota I'd really appreciate it. I've had to clean mine out more than once.

Posted: **Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:31 am**

I just DID increase your quota by 30% (see above), unless you need more

Posted: **Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:03 am**

I seem to have scrolled right by that post. With that boost I've got over 30% empty space. That'll hold me for a while.

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:47 pm**

Of the 5 or 6 forums I've belonged to in my life I've never got even 50% full...

But then I tend to delete after reading. Unless I think I may forget about it or it pertains to an order.

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:48 pm**

Tell you what, Catalyst.

I am only at 25% now... after doing a purge about a year ago.

How about we just PM each other to make ourselves feel important.

Posted: **Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:25 pm**

LOL

By the way I like that picture in your sig. Is that from the Uk Comics?