Can't send private messages to yourself

I think users shouldn't be allowed to send private messages to themselves; it's kind of pointless. Or if you do want to keep this feature, at least have an option to disable it.

This isn't email; it's a simple user-to-user messaging service and should behave as such.

I'm sorry, "pointless" was a poor choice of words.

I hadn't realized that Facebook allowed you to compose a message to yourself (it's just not something I do; I typically just send messages to other friends ;) ).

I see the point of your argument. I guess it's not too big a deal, but it'd still be nice if I had the ability turn this feature off. It's the little things like this that bug me when they behave in an unintended manner.

So I want to send myself a private message and see what it's going to look like when one of my friends receives one from me.

Would a "preview" function be better for this sort of thing? To me, it makes more sense.

+1 to keeping it in. I send email to myself for todo-like lists. Being able to replicate that inside privatemsg ("be sure to bug the admin about fixing that comment") would be useful. No configuration necessary.

Just saw this on IRC. +1 to self messaging. -1 to a setting. Just let it work. There's no reason to exclude people from messaging themselves. It's not like it hurts something.

Michelle

I've removed all invalidations of message sending to self.

Let me know if i missed any.

thanks.

enjoy the module.

This also needs to be removed, line 1644 in privatemsg.module:

  if ($sender->uid == $recipient->uid) {
    return FALSE;
  }

You probably have an old release, that line (and number of others) have been removed long ago.

Hello all, I hope you are well.

I understand there has been a discussion about how good it is to have the chance to message yourself.

However, I for one think it looks like a design defect; if people want to write messages to themselves, there are always note paper, diaries, iPhone dingaling reminders etc.

So, does anyone know how you could get rid of that link?

Someone suggested the below, but it was removed from the module a long time ago and in any case seems incompatible with the lastest versions (found in privatemsg.module) :

if ($sender->uid == $recipient->uid) {
return FALSE;
}

Hint if it helps: There is no $sender anymore.

I'd do it myself, but while I can CSS anyone's face off, real development coding like PHP baffles me something awful :(

Thanks in advance if anyone an help :)

Reverting everything, do *not* re-open issues that have been closed 6 (!) years ago.

For the record, this is now a setting in 7,x-2.x.