Pm help.

cynical · Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 27

Sorry for all my posts, I just really need my site to be clean and clear. When I try to send PMs, I get this message:

You must specify a username to whom to send this message.

I always enter the name of the user i want to pm and I still get this message.

What can I do?

Thanks.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Just to clarify, are they site users or admin users?

cynical · Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 27

Admin and site

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

If they are the same, that's fine. But PMs only work with site users. Otherwise, if your site sends other notifications (e.g. registrations, feedback, news submitted, etc.), the forum email should work fine.

cynical · Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 27

Well, they are the same, and when i try to send pms, it doesn't work

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Does the user have the settings to notify on receipt of PM?

metallica199 · New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

yes they have this settings to notify on receipt of PM and i see this message in the forum admin
Version Information

Your installation does not seem to be up to date. Updates are available for your version of phpBB, please visit

Only registered users can see links on this board!
Get registered or login to the forums!

to obtain the latest version.
The latest available version is phpBB 2.0.21.You are running phpBB 2.0.17.

so i will try to update our forum and see if is that the problem

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

I doubt the update is the problem. Is this the same problem originally described in this thread?

metallica199 · New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

yes is the same probleme we are trying to do a website for our clan so me and cynical are creating toggether so that is the same probs

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

OK. Does the PM get sent, even without the notification?

metallica199 · New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

no its work the same error

cynical · Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 27

we cannot send the PM, when we try to send it, it says: "You must specify a username to whom to send this message"

Guardian2003 · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:05 pm

Sorry for jumping in but is the username you are typing in correct? Don't forget it is case sensitive. Also, does the username have any none alpha-numerical charcters in it?

cynical · Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 27

nope, the username is perfect... still doesn't work.

metallica199 · New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

We write the username correctly and the name have letter and number and the upgrade change nothing

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

I thought you said the user received the PM, just no notification of it by email. Confused...

What Nuke distribution are you using, and what forum mods have you added, if any? Is this a new site, or a converted site?

metallica199 · New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

No we can't send pm
It says: "You must specify a username to whom to send this message"

nuke distribution i don'T know it was already installed

Your Current BBtoNuke version is 2.0.21 And your PHP-Nuke version is 7.9

And we have not add any mods to the forum

metallica199 · New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

and when we are trying to lock some post and they give us a
Hacking attempt! message

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Were any patches (i.e. from NukeFixes.com) applied?

metallica199 · New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

they are from nukeresource bbtonuke 2.0.21

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Oh. You updated from the previous version of bbtonuke, but neither works, correct?

One possibility is that it cannot validate the user name - check your phpMyAdmin to make sure all the tables check OK. Repair them, if necessary.

Another possibility is that somehow the username field has a different form name value that the script is expecting. I really doubt that unless someone modified a script.

cynical · Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 27

Hum, we don't have access to the phpmyadmin, we are hosted by a web hoster that doesn't give us access to phpmyadmin, maybe we should find another free webhoster?

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

You can try optimizing the DB from Nuke Admin, but it would be nice to have this capability via phpMyAdmin. Can you see the error log?

metallica199 · New Member Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Posts: 13

i try to optimizing the db from nuke but that do not change anything the prob is here again
The probleme is that our free host don't want to give access to our phpmyadmin so i will see if there a other good free host with phpmyadmin

cynical · Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 27

Can you guys recommend us any good free hoster?