I don't have that problem, there has to be a setting in your AdminCP or UserCP that is preventing the PM alert popup for you. For me, everything works just fine, as the PM datamanager has no control over whether or not the email is sent or the popup is shown, those are settings in the AdminCP, UserCP, or vBoptions.

Actually, it goes deeper than a pop-up. Even on the "Private Messages" for you under your username in the upper-right hand side of the default templates, it will show "0" even though I will have a new 1. EVEN if someone sends me a PM, it will show 1, when two are really available.

It's as though it thinks I have read it... but I haven't. It does show up as bold though likes its new , the PM area.

I'm at a loss, I am not experiencing any of those behaviors on the hack I wrote to send automatic PMs which i learned from reading this HOWTO. All the stuff in the top right, everywhere seems to work as it should on my installations of vb. Maybe it has to do with the location where you're inserting the datamanager code?

OK I'm a little confused with PMing multiple users.

Suppose I have two textfields, user1 and user2.

All I want to do is combine those two values into the format user1;user2 and input that into the "$pmdm->set_recipients" line so I can send the PM to the two users specified.

i am working on a new hack "Auto PM in members birthday"
i will use it as a cron jop but i have a proplem in recipient i can't make it sends the message to any member

I am confussed, how do i make it so that a new user will get a private message automaticly sent by me saying Welcome?

I'm interested in some hints, or pointers to other tutorials, on how I might use this to PM a user when a mod delete's their message. I'd like to include the reason they list in the delete reason blank.

This would be great to use as a "poke" sort of feature like facebook.com has, I'm not sure exactly how to do that at all - but it would be awesome to try ...

What is the "poke" feature? Never heard of it.

Take a look at the code for my "Moderation Auto-PM" hack - this should get you started with sending PM's when a post is deleted.

Thanks,
Alan.