I would like PRUNE someones Private messages, got insults

[Sharg]

Hi, just got a user that registered and sent several INSULT private messages. Very rude messages.

He just registered and sent these insults.
Fortunately, a user of my site was able to report me the problem and I banned the user.

BUT, I'm sure he sent many PMs and my users will probably report the problem all day long as they check they PMs.

In this case, I would like to be able to PRUNE PMs of a user, so in this case I can do it before other users even read the pms of the imbecil.

It would be good also If I could VIEW the message before they are prunned. I don't know if we have the right to VIEW pms, but in this case it would be usefull.
In case its not legal, a pruning with no viewing would be good.

This happened once, I know it can happen again.

[bira]

in phpMyAdmin do:

DELETE FROM privatemessage WHERE fromuserid='xxx'


(Replace xxx with that user's userid.)

This will delete all the PMs he sent.

[tubedogg]

You own the board. It is perfectly legal for you to view anything that goes on, including PMs.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by bira
in phpMyAdmin do:

DELETE FROM privatemessage WHERE fromuserid='xxx'


(Replace xxx with that user's userid.)

This will delete all the PMs he sent. maybe this should be a suggestion for a beta 4 control panel and mod control panel option ?

[bira]

if you want to read someone's PMs, you could log in as him, I suppose.

Personally, I would not do that without a user's permission, or at all. I find it unethical to read people's personal exchanges. How would you feel if you found out your ISP or host is reading your e-mails?