No messages behaviour

The view doesn't seem to work properly when there are no messages, we're seeing a single empty entry. We'd like to be able to use the empty text that we specify in the view.

We are working with Views 3.

This may be a design decision form this module, or it may be to do with VBO?

We're also not seeing the $empty variable in the template, so that's adding an additional problem for us.

We can override the behaviour in the template, so we have a solution that works for us, but it's not very clean, so raising this as an issue for anyone else who may be seeing the same problem.

Here's the template snippet for what it's worth, certainly not a great solution.

// Privatemsg views doesn't process empty views properly, fixing it here in the template.
if (!$view->result[0]->mid) {
  unset ($rows);
  $empty = $view->empty['area']->options['content'];
}