Database table modification Q

[tom w]

In this thread over on the vb.com site it was suggested that a way to give users email notifications with all new posts to a forum was to stuff emails into the "Email Addresses to Notify When there is a New Post" slot in the Forum manager.

Problem: That field is only 250 chars wide.

Question: Will it break anything in vBulletin to manually alter that column in the table to a MySQL "TEXT" field so we can add about 40 email addresses in there? That's until a better solution is implemented in the software.

Thanks!

[briansol]

From a database perspective, there shouldn't be any ill-effects moving from one text field to a larger text field.
I can't say for vB though, as I'm new to the software myself.... but I can't think of anything that would cause a failure.

If in doubt, make a back up first