How to read a certain users PM

[inspiration100]

I have reason to believe a certain user is harassing people on my forum and I take that quite seriously. Is there any hack that will allow me to check a specific users private message to see if that is going on?

Thank you.
P.S. Please don't bother with the privacy talk stuff. I know about that.

[Disasterpiece]

Search for the Name "Read PMs" in the mod section. Its a Bit outdated but also works with the current vb 4 version.

[Lynne]

If it's just a one time thing, you can do it directly in the database in the pmtext table.

[RcHelp]

There is a hack out there called "sign in as user" that I have used. I only use it for testing out different problems they are seeing, and I'm not, but I had one troublesome member that was doing exactly what your member was doing, and I was able to log into his name, and read what he had wrote. I then deleted all PM's and banned him cause of it. I highly suggest that hack just for the fact you can check out problems, but on the rare occasions where you need to see a PM, you can do so.

[MrDJ]

what hack/mod is this . i have a couple of members on my site that are joining up and then causing some drama's with members i would only use this in the last resort as i do believe pm's are pm's but my members saftey and security is more important . if i could have some help on this it would be good im a newbie on vb . thanks

[RcHelp]

It's called "Admin Log In As User", and I just searched on here for it, and I couldn't find it. I may have downloaded it from www.vbteam.info, although I do not like downloading stuff over there. But, I have it, and it works fine.

[g0dfather1984]

Search: Read - All Mods.

This comes up under 3.6 mods and works too.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123166&highlight=Read

[RcHelp]

I was not sure if that would work or not. Glad it will though.

[AusPhotography]

On the privacy subject... Our site rules/T&Cs say... (in part)

Your Responsibilities

[3] All information that you disclose may become public information and caution should be exercised when deciding to share any of your personal information or discussing another person, website or organisation on the site. This includes providing your address, phone number or other personal information to another member. Please exercise caution. You are legally responsible for all content that you load to the site. The Administrator(s) reserve the right to access any or all content that you transmit using the site, or that may be stored within the site and it's databases.

You agree to Ausphotography using any content you post to the site, in so far that you agree to allow Ausphotography to act as a carriage service, and display your post content to other internet users.

Posts/threads that could be deemed libellous or defamatory will be removed. Australia does not have 'Freedom of Speech' laws, so you do not have a 'right' to post whatever you want. The Personal Message (PM) system is called Personal only in that messages are not posted to the public forums.

We also changed Private to Personal to avoid some misunderstandings.
We are up front about the our ability to read PMs, that way no one can complain :D

[MrDJ]

If it's just a one time thing, you can do it directly in the database in the pmtext table.


how would one do this ive looked and i cant find anything Lynne

thanks

[Lynne]

how would one do this ive looked and i cant find anything Lynne

thanks
You would need to know how to access your database in order to do this.