Is there an auto - purge for PM's?
 

Basically it is like this. I have a bunch of members, many who have gone away and no longer visit.

In order to clean up the database, it occured to me that there are many old pm's in the inbox that could be dumped.

The definitions would be like this....

In Inbox only,
and any pm 30 days or older,
....Auto-delete.

I figure if anyone has a pm they want to keep, they should move it into a different folder in ther pm manager.

Otherwise it should be dumped after a pre-set amount of time.

I have searched but cannot find, is there a mod that does this?

Why would you delete those PMs ?

Because I have almost 10 years of members, many whom have no longer returned,... and many whom have pms unread and otherwise,... that just fill up database space.

I would not mind setting policy that if given, would inform members that the last 30,45,60 days or whatever, if they have pms they want to keep, they should store in another folder in their acp.

I have identified several thousand pm's that are either unread or read, that just sit in thier pm inbox. And I want to make more effecient the database in that regard.

Look at it this way,... if they havent logged in in 90 days or much more,... it is time to purge the data to make the database take less space.

I see. Still seems more more to prune than just leave it there. The last 15 years we changed / upgraded the forum software a few times and did not transfer the private messages. That was a good way to clean up things :-)

There is this mod, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=179879 which has been reported to work on vB4 if you use the xml in this post, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....0&postcount=45 , after uploading the files from the OP's zip.

Thank you ozzy. I did do a search but only for v4, which is why I didnt find it. So serious thanks to you.

Question, I have installed and tested, works like a champ. But in the settings it says you can set for Inbox, Sent Items, or all others except Inbox/Sent Items.

I wish to change option 3 for BOTH Inbox/Sent Items and no other folders that a user may have custom.

The original code in prunepms.php:

Would I change the code in prunepms.php to:
or would this work instead:
Obviously I have to be careful, but I am unsure of the syntax to make it work properly.
(I do know I will have to change the acp phrases)

I think you would want:


Maybe using = works the same as IN, I don't know, but you could just remove the NOT.

I had considered that too, thanks.

But if you select the first option, it runs this snippet:
Which is why I used an = and then the ( 0, -1) in my first suggested example.


This is definetly something I dont really want to screw up and end up deleting all pm's and having to perform a restore of my db lol.

That hack doesnt work 100% regardless of changing the xml file, your going to end up with bad results on deleted PM records still showing up for users, which they cant get rid of.

Just a warning, always test old hacks that are reported to work on a test site.

Thats the first I had read of that issue, it wasnt reported on the thread that I read.

In my prelim tests it appeared to have operated properly.

Can I ask did you try this mod and have this problem?