(I am posting a new thread hopefully for the benefit of others who might be doing the same)

On my current forum, when we approve a new member, we click the

Member cannot Send/Receive PMs:

box, effectively making it so that they can't use PMs.
(We then turn them on manually later when they have posted some).

I'm glad that 7.3 gives us a system to do all this automatically.

My question:

When I upgrade to 7.3, what happens to all the members who currently have that Member cannot Send/Receive PMs: checked?

Are they brought in to 7.3 still unable to send/start/receive PMs? Does that particular setting stay intact?

Thanks