How to set standard settings for new users?

Subject kinda says it all - on my vbulletin board, when a new user registers, the standard user settings doesn't enable private messages, and I really need it to.

I'll be eternally grateful if someone could help out asap, I'm launching the board tomorrow, and expect about 200 registrations on the first day, at least.

[Xenon]

you have to edit the registeradult template

the checked tag you can put where you want it

[Larz]

Sorry, I just checked that template - that's not what I was looking for. We have a system running that bypasses that template in order to use a site-wide database. Works like this: a user tries to login, vbulletin checks against our database, and if that username and password matches, our database outputs username and password to vBulletin's database, and - I suspect - a range of options that the original programmer didn't quite think through.

What does that output look like, does anyone know?

From the template Xenon referred to, I suppose I just need to add "receivepm=yes" to the add-line or something like that?

[Xenon]

hmm, can't say more without knowing your system better...

when your system adds a user to the vb database, be shure it sets the field receivepm to 1