There was a problem… (friends-only)

firstly, many thanks for this useful plugin.

One thing…, the plugin was installed on my site after it had been running for a number of years. During this time many members have of course sent one another private messages, friends or not. Since then I installed your plugin, some months ago, and use the “friends-only” setting.

Now everything is fine that people cannot send one another private messages (public messages are ok), unless they are friends. BUT, when they have sent messages in the past, they can still reply to an existing thread. Or at least, they can try to reply.

The error message they receive is There was a problem sending the message. Please try again.

Naturally this is not going to work, and the users get frustrated. Perhaps one might improve the error message to include the restriction (in this case friends-only) as at least a hint as to what might be the cause of the message send failure?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Richard Foley.