Email notification of PMs have PM inside

[majorxp]

I'm looking for a way to include (in the email notification) the subject and body of the PM when you have "Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages" enabled.

Thoughts?

[majorxp]

I am surprised that I'm the only one interested in such a feature.

[chinch]

i used to have this working ONLY for moderators/admins (not members - i want them to login to check). Any help in this thread appreciated

[movielist]

I'd also be interested.

[ChuckH]

That would be pretty sweet

[jimp]

I was looking for the same thing, and was beginning to write a hack for it. Instead, I found the solution could be implemented with a phrase override.

Change pmreceived to:

Dear $touserinfo[username],

You have received a new private message at $vboptions[bbtitle] from $fromusername. Please click here to log in and read it:
$vboptions[bburl]/private.php

All the best,
$vboptions[bbtitle]

_______________
Subject: {$this->pmtext[title]}

{$this->pmtext[message]}

(Tested with vB 3.5.x)

I hope this helps!

[Code Monkey]

I'm working on a plugin for this.

[Rukbat]

I had a hack like this installed when I was still running phpBB2. Essentially just added phrasing to email template like Jimp did in above post. It worked fine except for some really clueless members we had.... they'd hit reply in their email client and I'd of course get what they were sending back to whomever along with the quoted original... was a bit aggravating, I ended up haveing to add to the email template in big bold red letters "DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION VIA EMAIL, YOU MUST GO TO FORUM AND LOG IN TO REPLY" across the top... as well as emailing the clueless everytime that everytime they did this I was getting to read their PRIVATE messages....

[majorxp]

Thanks Jimp!! Brilliant! Simple and effective.

Rukbat, I decided based on your experience to only include the subject. I could see folks doing that and that would be annoying. The subject is good enough to see if you want to login and read it immediately or not.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by jimp

I was looking for the same thing, and was beginning to write a hack for it. Instead, I found the solution could be implemented with a phrase override.

Change pmreceived to:

Dear $touserinfo[username],
 
You have received a new private message at $vboptions[bbtitle] from $fromusername. Please click here to log in and read it:
$vboptions[bburl]/private.php
 
All the best,
$vboptions[bbtitle]
 
_______________
Subject: {$this->pmtext[title]}
 
{$this->pmtext[message]}

(Tested with vB 3.5.x)

I hope this helps!

This will show it for everyone. Users won't log in to read them as often.

*sigh* I guess I'll have to wait for the plug-in.

God job, though.