How to force registered users to accept admin mail messages ?

[hometechforo]

Hello, after 10 years I moved from phpBB 3.0 to myBB, I am happy only with some issues.

www.hometechforo.com/foros

I wanted to send a massive message but when I select a group (893) the next ppage only shows that there will be 18 recipients.

I checked and users profiles have uncheckd the option to receive message from administration.

Is there a way I can edit this setting for all users ? So all users can receive my administration messages, I searched and searched and nothing. And in advance any possibility to control users profile, my board is a lousy one so...

I tried to export the email addresses but the php code a guy here provided dind't work.

I think it is easy to understand so that's why I do not add a screenshot.



Thanks in advance

[Paul H.]

UPDATE mybb_users SET allownotices=1 WHERE allownotices=0

[hometechforo]

UPDATE mybb_users SET allownotices=1 WHERE allownotices=0

Well I did this, and again ran the message module but still, only 20 users out of 800+ would get the mail. Did I do it right ?

[Paul H.]

Try this then?

UPDATE mybb_users SET allownotices=1

[hometechforo]

Well... no I did the first option... The secon one I do not understand it, it seems to be teh same, in databesa I can change each user settings but if I try to do it in batches there i no way and browser freezes, one by one is the same problem as doing it from admin control panel.

Still ther has to be a way an administrator can overrun and make adjustments in users settings.

I still await for your kind help.

[Rukbat]

Well... no I did the first option... The secon one I do not understand it, it seems to be teh same

It almost is - but it changes the setting for all users. The first one only changes them where the setting was 0. Try the second one.

Still ther has to be a way an administrator can overrun and make adjustments in users settings.

A plugin to do that would probably be easy enough. (One to change the setting at the time you change it - as opposed to changing it as new people register - would be the definition of trivial.)

[hometechforo]

Rubkbat, I have not much expertise on this, can you explain me a lttle bit more detailed how to fulfill procedure for option # 2 ?

thanks

[patrick]

enter phpMyAdmin y run the query.

A "bug" in mybb import sets all php users to "not receive email". The query modifies that setting.

The browser my seem to hang when you run the query, but just wait (on slow servers it can take over an hour).