Ability to search PM's

[jrgp]

Why the hell does SMF not have a PM searching feature?

I've got a few hundred PM's and there's something I just can't find.

[blackdevil0742]

Isn't the PM limit like 20-30 messages?

[PaFel]

Isn't the PM limit like 20-30 messages?

Screen:

(13 pages in inbox and 12 in outbox...)

If you PM with lot of people then it would be usefull. for me it's not that important 'cause I PM with ~4 persons.

[blackdevil0742]

You do know that there is a delete button... why keep over 50 messages and I highly doubt you need to keep all of them.

[PaFel]

Some of them are just important and some less important have links, pics. It's good to keep 'em.

[NinjaGimp369]

I have 60 messages, used to have a lot more but deleted all the useless ones, it's a lot easier to look for the stuff you need if you get rid of all the pointless stuff just sitting around in your inbox.

A search function would be excellent for the more frequent PM'ers though.

[El_Spec]

I guess it would be useful to have for those with a lot of PMs.  A lot of people wouldn't really use it though.

[a-4-year-old]

Delete them?

The only relevant ones are the first pages

[FliesLikeABrick]

If you need to be able to search your private messages, just enable the e-mail notification of new PMs (if you don't have it enabled already) and just search your mail inbox instead.

(this is what I do)

[ausdat14]

ah yes!! good tips there ninjadick 

learn to soldat 

[Horve]

ah yes!! good tips there ninjadick 

learn to soldat 

what? a retard
maybe if you have links in pms and keep those cloggers just for that, why not make a "favourites"/"soldat link bookmarks" function that would just help store relevant links/pics so you wouldn't have to browse through all of your worldly possessions?

[The Bone Collector]

ah yes!! good tips there ninjadick 

learn to soldat 

Ahahaha... NinjaGimps got someone who hates him.
Ontopic: I agree for this one

[NinjaGimp369]

Hahaha, he sent me a nice little PM too. It's people like him who shame Aussie Soldat.

[echo_trail]

If you need to be able to search your private messages, just enable the e-mail notification of new PMs (if you don't have it enabled already) and just search your mail inbox instead.

(this is what I do)

I see.. but getting e-mails all the time is just annoying, really. In fact, I hate getting e-mails, and I haven't even gotten smited with spammail on my new one yet. I quite like the idea here that jrgp brought up. Like me, I have 221 PMs currently, and I don't really wanna delete any of them. Surely there are some of them that I will never check out again, but I actually like to go through some of them on dull days just to see if I forgot anything, you know?

[jrgp]

Thanks, echo. I highly doubt there isn't a searching PM's add on for SMF, and if there isn't, it wouldn't take more than a half hour for someone like Flies or EH to code one. Maybe it's something you guys could consider.

[M.rSnow]

If i get an important messange il either screen it and put it in a certain folder or just copy it.

[FliesLikeABrick]

If you need to be able to search your private messages, just enable the e-mail notification of new PMs (if you don't have it enabled already) and just search your mail inbox instead.

(this is what I do)

I see.. but getting e-mails all the time is just annoying, really. In fact, I hate getting e-mails, and I haven't even gotten smited with spammail on my new one yet. I quite like the idea here that jrgp brought up. Like me, I have 221 PMs currently, and I don't really wanna delete any of them. Surely there are some of them that I will never check out again, but I actually like to go through some of them on dull days just to see if I forgot anything, you know?

Do you really get PMs so often that the e-mails would be annoying?

[echo_trail]

Well... yes, actually. I mean, it's not critical, but the feature would be a nice addition, me thinks.