Deleting select private messages

[mdawg]

Is there a hack or method to deleting, say, all Inbox or Sent Items private messages that are older than a year or so?

Also, is there a way to stop vbulletin 5 from putting a copy of the Welcome PM into the admin's Sent Items outbox this is part of why it gets so full.

[delicjous]

PMs are also nodes and shoUlf be deletable by admincp nodetools prune. I don’t think you could find and delete welcomepms, but you could delete the folder-items by selecting and batch delete.

[mdawg]

It's strange but vbulletin is claiming that it is impossible to delete PMs, at least that having a user delete them and put them in the trash, or using ACP to delete all the PMs of a user has no effect.

[In Omnibus]

If it were me I'd just go into the SQL database and run a query on the privatemessage table to delete PMs by User ID. It'd be a lot easier than trying to do it from the front end.