PM feature not working?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

The old tech support guy in me is really perplexed right now.

Anybody having this same issue, try this. Go to your email to make sure these notifications aren't being treated like spam. Go to your spam preferences (they're different in each e-mail provider. I have mine through my web host). But add *@net54baseball.com, or just leon@net54baseball.com to your white list, which might be called approved email list, or something similar. That should allow any mail originating from the site to go into your inbox.

You guys might try archiving your messages. I use vBulletin PM reader:

download here.

Go to your message box here on Net54. Checkmark the little box atop your messages count on the far right, and then do the same to your sent messages list. That should checkmark every message.

Go down to selected messages, and choose to download as XML. The first time you use the program, it's going to ask if you want to create a database. Obviously you do. Once that's done, select the 'import xml file' option in the top left of the pm reader. Locate the file you just downloaded and open it. All the messages you downloaded should now be there. They're split into inbox and sent items like the forum. Delete that xml file you downloaded, it's now part of the database. You can do that again later, too. Just repeat the process, and select to import the new xml file you create. It will import the new messages into the existing database.

Once you've confirmed that the messages you're wanting to keep have been correctly loaded into the database for your reader, don't forget to go back and delete the messages, which will still be on the forum. Instead of downloading them as an XML file, just delete them.

Thanks for helping, Bill. Very nice of you...

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by ErikV

I wanted to give Bill a shout out. Somehow all of my PM were being filtered to my
spam folder. Thanks for looking into this and for giving me a hand with this, Bill.

ErikV

Originally Posted by ZachS

I want to thank you for this. I usually have over 200 PMs (out of 250) at any given time. I have to go through every now and then to pick which ones I want to delete and which to save. I like to go back if I have a question about how much I sold or bought something for, or who I got something from, etc. Now I don't have to worry about that anymore!

You are most welcome.

I'm glad that is helping some people. Like you, Zach, I like to keep my messages, because there are times when I start getting conversations mixed up (did I say this to this person or that, etc). It also helps me to keep track of transactions, though I've gotten better about documenting that stuff right away.

Originally Posted by Leon

Thanks for helping, Bill. Very nice of you...

I try to help when I can, Leon