MAJOR BUG
When sending PMs to multiple people, the 2nd and subsequent ones receive a sort of HTML version of the PM with tags like
instead of a proper line break formatted when they read the PM. The 1st recipient is fine.
It's easy to reproduce, just send a PM with a couple of line breaks in to yourself twice (list yourself twice on the send list) and read the PMs, the first is OK, the second has the
tags in and is not displayed properly in privateview.cgi.
This has happened ever since the CC feature was added.
NEXT PROBLEM
Why does PM set cookies? What need is there for that? And why does it ignore the cookie scope set in UBB? It always uses the root scope - it that wise if users have local scope set in the control panel. It seems that that would create
two different cookies for each user and if they changed their password - the root scope one would never get reset and their PMs would then become inaccessible until all cookies were deleted. Please test PMs after changing your UBB password to see what happens.
ANOTHER BUG
Sometimes I can't read my PMs and get returned to the logon screen (others have mentioned this above). This is probably a cookie problem. Now a while ago a guy posted how he had fixed the cookies by changing your cookie code into calls to the standard UBB cookie routines, why has this change not been made standard? It really is a good idea. I will post what he suggested at the end of this post.
MY DETAILS
UBB 5.47C, PM 3.8, UNIX, local cookie scope.
PM options: nothing extra enabled (not UBB code, not IMs etc - just basic PMs).
QUESTION
What are IMs, how do they differ from PMs? They seem like another sort of PM - why would you want to use both?
---- here the cookie fix ----
This message has been edited by Pilot on December 28, 2000 at 11:05 AM
