DOH stupid me
it is user ID, not NAME
Solved
Thanks Andreas

Andreas,
For some reason I got 5 identical PMs when I did a test signup.

Any idea what I could have done wrong?

Awesome tool!
Simon

nice thanks!

I want to have the $username - string in the title of the pm, but that doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Mmm ok this is baffling.

We recently did a fresh install of Vbulletin 3.5.3 and then started to add our hacks. However although we managed to get the Welcome PM hack working happily on Vbulletun 3.5.2 on another of our sites its now refusing to send out to any PMS in 3.5.3.

We have the userid to send the pms set to 1 (and i've double checked it). I've updated the phrase (same as the one we used before) and we go through the entire registration process (not adding to the user control panel) with either email validation on or off. Groups are able to recieve PM's in either registered or awaiting email verification groups.

Vbulletin accepts the user and everything works as it should but the welcome PM will not send.

I tried serveral times to upload the plugin and even used the over write function but nothing seems to be making any difference.

I see the plugin is active and the 3 plugins running happily in the plugin manager but no matter what i do i cannot get this thing to fire in a vbulletin 3.5.3 fresh install. Ironically its still running on 3.5.2 on one of my other sites with no problems whatsoever.

So does this not work properly on vbulletin 3.5.3 ? Maybe users who upgrade can get it to work but fresh installs cannot ?

We only have 2 other hacks installed and 1 is the welcome headers and the other "visitors who have come to the site in the last X hours" so i'm convinced its neither of these causing the issue .. The welcome headers is working on our other site so i know for sure it isn't that one ...

Any advice would really be helpful ..

Make sure you have entered a correct userid (!)
Make sure your phrases are correct (delete all translations, uninstall this hack, install it again)
Disable all other plugins/products.
If it still does not work, send me a PM with an ACP login.

Hi there tried all you said and it worked .. So it got me problem solving. And low and behold it turned out i had a 5000 character limit in posting PM's so anyone that doesn't recieve a PM and you've, well, been kinda "in-depth" with your welcome pm, make sure you check you can post that message size with going into Private Messaging Options > and setting up your Maximum Characters Per Private Message (0 to disable) as vbulletin default was 5000.

And Andreas many many thanks for offerinf to help with this via PM, shows how commited you are. Awessome hack and so very glad i have it running again as my users love it ...

Well done :)

It's good if we can have Automatic welcome thread !!

There's one already...

There are Hacks that do this.
Though, I wouldn't use a Welcome Thread-Hack on my board ... would be really annoying having 80-100 "Welcome User xyz"-Threads every day ;)