Make it so everyone can send and recieve PM's be default.

[TheBlackHatter]

This morning I got a PM from a member of my community and I couldn't respond because their default setting was to not recieve PM's from other users, I had to manually go into the admin CP and enable it on their account just to PM them back.

Is there a way I can make it so it's always enabled especially for new members who just joined?

[dragonexpert]

Open up PHPMyAdmin. Navigate to the mybb_users table. Go to the structure tab. Edit the column receivepms by changing the default value to 1.

[TheBlackHatter]

Open up PHPMyAdmin. Navigate to the mybb_users table. Go to the structure tab. Edit the column receivepms by changing the default value to 1.

This doesn't work not sure why.

[iAndrew]

Run this in phpmyadmin.

UPDATE `mybb_users` SET `receivepms` = '1' WHERE `receivepms` = '0'

[Tutorial] Common SQL queries and how to run them
https://community.mybb.com/thread-44380.html