If I had mistakenly imported their settings to no pms' then the system just wouldn't send pms to them. As things were it was "crashing", well spitting out bad database query. I deliberately used the settings bitmap from a legit user whom I verified could receive pms.
But I did find the answer at least to the current problem...
it's usertextfield. you gotta create an entry in that for every user. everything can be null but you just gotta have it. I made one for a particular bogus user and now I can send pms to her. So now I'll create an entry for any the newly hacked in users that doesn't have one and then see what other problems crop up until these hacked-in guys become full vb citizens.
It was actually surprisingly simple as long as you don't have posting history to port along with them. The proprietry system I was exporting from was not a discussion forum and did not have postings.
I'll sit on this a while longer until I'm sure there aren't any other creeping nastys in it then I'll share it. The script assumes mysql 4.1 or better tho, sorry I just can't live iwth 4.0
01-25-2006, 04:07 AM
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