Site mail

Hello,

     How do you tell if users are using the inter site mail feature?  I am not sure how I should be monitoring this to check for spam messages etc.

Thanks,

Cory

Check in the Market; there are modules to help with what you want to accomplish.

I can not check this by looking at some indicator in the base Dolphin?

Cory

in your database - table name sys_messages stores all the messages that are sent through the site mail from one user to another. you can either manually check here or create a simple php page that lists all messages in a table for you.

$messages_list = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM sys_messages");
while ($messages = mysql_fetch_row($messages_list)) {
    $messageID = $messages[0];
    $messageDate = $messages[1];
    $messageSender = $messages[2];
    $messageRecipient = $messages[3];
    $messageText = $messages[4];
    $messageSubject = $messages[5];
    $messageNew = $messages[6];
    $messageType = $messages[7];
    $messageTrash = $messages[8];
    $messageTrashNotView = $messages[9];

/* Edited */
    
echo    $messageID . ', ';
echo $messageDate . ', ';
echo $messageSender . ', ';
echo $messageRecipient . ', ';
echo $messageText . ', ';
echo $messageSubject . ', ';
echo $messageNew . ', ';
echo $messageType . ', ';
echo $messageTrash . ', ';
echo $messageTrashNotView . ', ';
    
    
}
mysql_free_result($messages_list);

something like that. I havent tested this but something like this should work

 
Sorry. Dolphin does not have a built in feature that will allow you to peek at your members messages.

I will give that a shot.  To be honest I was thinking more on the lines of something like this....

Admin / Dashboard

Totals under content

messages sent, users sending messages count, users receiving messages count

This metric would be something that you could watch just to make sure that you do not have to dig into the the messages unless there really is a problem.

I was just sharing what I was hoping for.  In the long run I will end up with a module I am guessing to manage this.  My main point is that I do not understand how we do not have the very very basics in Dolphin for this when it is such a rich product.  (not a slam, I am just shocked)  

On a side note:  I will say that the tictactoe captcha module andrewp has on the market has solved 99% of my spammer problems.  

Cory