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Dear MyBB Community,

I found there is a setting Amount of Characters for Subscription Previews in the Posting settings to limit the size of the content being sent for new posts.

Is there a similar setting for the PM notifications, so I can limit the number of characters for these emails?

No.

You can open inc/datahandlers/pm.php , find:

$pm['message'] = $parser->text_parse_message($pm['message'], array('me_username' => $pm['sender']['username'], 'filter_badwords' => 1, 'safe_html' => 1));

and add after:

$email_pm = my_substr($pm['message'], 0, 50); // 50 = character limit

And change:

$emailmessage = $lang->sprintf($emailmessage, $recipient['username'], $pm['sender']['username'], $mybb->settings['bbname'], $mybb->settings['bburl'], $pm['message']);

to:

$emailmessage = $lang->sprintf($emailmessage, $recipient['username'], $pm['sender']['username'], $mybb->settings['bbname'], $mybb->settings['bburl'], $email_pm);