The "messageread=1" should take care of that, right? It's got me baffled. Believe it or not, it works right on my site.

That's a first, huh, Erwin? Something working right on my site without having to tear it apart? LOL

hey Boofo, you added the code for both private.php and global.php, right?

Yes, sir, I did. ;)

K, now I'm totally lost on this. I have installed this hack:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=51963

I added this code from erwins post:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...011#post396011

The code from this post I cannot find in global.php:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...017#post396017
I am getting the emails with the PM message, but some some odd reason it is marking the message read, but I still get the new PM popup.

First of all, uninstall the first hack and do the code in the following post instead. That might be your problem. ;)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...609#post385609

Look for this in the forum/global.php:

$newpmmsg=1;

instead of this:

if ($hack_pm_total > 1) {

The second code here is for the "Improved PM Popup Start" hack. The first code is from a unhacked global.php.

no joy. :( removed the first hack, added the code from your link, hacked global.php... Still getting those damn popups on forumhome for new PM's.

Minor correction:

".....just put $message in the emailsubject_pmreceived template."

That's not right and it's been repeated in this thread.

You don't want to add text from the private message the subject line of the email notice they get; you have to add that to the message body, itself.

Instead --> add $message to the email_pmreceived template.

Oops... that's what I meant. :)