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tom w
04-27-2006, 09:22 PM
In this thread (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131540) over on the vb.com site it was suggested that a way to give users email notifications with all new posts to a forum was to stuff emails into the "Email Addresses to Notify When there is a New Post" slot in the Forum manager.

Problem: That field is only 250 chars wide.

Question: Will it break anything in vBulletin to manually alter that column in the table to a MySQL "TEXT" field so we can add about 40 email addresses in there? That's until a better solution is implemented in the software.

Thanks!

briansol
04-28-2006, 10:54 PM
From a database perspective, there shouldn't be any ill-effects moving from one text field to a larger text field.
I can't say for vB though, as I'm new to the software myself.... but I can't think of anything that would cause a failure.

If in doubt, make a back up first :)