UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Thread Like Summary - PM email notifications issue

I have a suggestion let see if you agree.

When members of our forum sends a PM to another member
The receiver (if correct box is checked/ticked) will get notified with an email.


Often I find that the PM receiver just answer the email notification cause it contains the full message. They just don't understand that they should login and answer the pm.
The answer goes to the email address that the admin (me) is using so I end up with these replies and feel I must sent another notification and explain what has happened.
such as this



My suggestion is that the email notification contains ONLY info that the receiver have received a PM and should login and read the PM.


Doing that the sender can see that the receiver has opened/read the PM. As it is now the receiver can just read the email and the sender have no clue that the receiver has read it.

Does it make any sence. I hope so and in the future I would not be able to read the replies that are not obviasly for me to read.

thanks for your attention.

In addition to option #2 I would add a auto respond that states that the email is not monitored nor replied to.
Also edit the contact us email to be something you do read.

In addition to the notice that is already displayed within the footer of all outgoing emails ("This email was auto-generated. Please do not reply."), This simple and straight forward solution will add another notice to the top, just above the salutation.


Control Panel > Languages > Search / Edit Language Strings
>> Choose Specific Language File: mailer.php
For the "EMAIL_SALUTE" field, REPLACE WITH

or

Control Panel > Languages > Search / Edit Language Strings
>> Search String: "Hello %%USERNAME%%,"
REPLACE WITH

or

MANUALLY EDIT templates/english/mailer.php
FIND

REPLACE WITH


The result will be:

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