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journeyman
journeyman
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I guess this question fits here...

We just noticed that if you send a PM to a username that doesn't exist (because of a typo), it will report that that user is over their private topic limit instead of indicating that the username doesn't exist.

If this isn't a bug, could someone explain the rationale of the design decision to me? It doesn't make sense to me - even from a security perspective. We'd really prefer that it replies with a "this user doesn't exist" type of message, and I'm not seeing a way to easily do that.

TIA.

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Definitely a bug. Moving to bugs forum.

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journeyman
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OK, in the interest of aiding this...

We're on 7.4.1. And if it matters, we came from 6.x (classic - whatever) to 7.2.2. Then upgraded to 7.4.1 recently. Mysql 5.x backend.

Thanks.

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Have this fixed for 7.4.2.


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