PM inbox full alert....

Since when you go to send a PM to a member with a full PM inbox you LOSE the message - and a long one it totally gone....... it gets frustrating - but a member has come up with a suggestion.
Right now if a member needs to contact another - via PM for example, they post a message in teh forum "hey XXX your inbox is full" - a member came up with this - how about an alert when you log in saying that "your PM inbox is full, click here to go clean it out" - sort of like the "you have x new messages" popup?
Otherwise, how about a gauge for you when you are logged in - there's the link to your member control panel and all - how about some indicator of how many messages total that you have. There's already an indicator of new messages, how about a total, or "FULL" indicator - maybe something that blinks and annoys them until they clean out?

For version 10 the admin can set a setting in the admin area to decide between rejecting the PM when the Inbox is full or accepting the PM and automatically deleting the oldest PM in the full Inbox.

I have done some additions on a forum of mine, such as displaying a message that the users inbox is full on their profile rather than a link to send a PM.

Depending on what appears for V10, I will look at releasing a mod with a few additional warnings.

billd3 wrote: While that is a good addition, I'm afraid we'd still have to choose to drop the new message as users would have a cow if a message they'd wanted to keep suddenly disappeared.......... where a gauge that showed up in the header would at least remind them - full, you can't receive any more messages. One example is my case - I saved a message from a couple of months ago as there was important info in it I needed to be able to access from anywhere. it was the oldest message as I'd been deleting other messages that came after it did. If my box was full and someone tried to PM me, that message would be deleted, even though others I'd rather see gone if necessary would still be around. So, I guess with our users, I rather doubt they'd want to see that happen.

Bill - you can send the Private Message via email to yourself, and then delete the message from your inbox. Remember that storing private messages all takes up space on the server, so sometimes it is better to educate members to delete rather than use the forum inbox like it was an online email account

I thought of another option Bruce
Would it not be possible to have a once a day javascript cookie pop up, like using jquery and a pop up slider, so that it just reminded users to empty or delete their older private messages