Having reached the "full" point on my PMs, I'm trying to archive them offsite before deleting. It appears that the only archive mechanism is for the site to batch up an HTML or CSV file and mail it to me. I'll spare you the gory details of all the special-casing I had to do to allow that to get through my mailserver, but even after doing that it seems like the "archive messages" function only allows 50 at a time to be batched. In the process of trying to work through that, 50 at a time, I just noticed that those 50 are RANDOMLY CHOSEN and OUT OF ORDER, thus eliminating my ability to just recover the archive and then mark a convenient range of held PMs for deletion and then let the system delete them. With this, I'd have to carefully pick and choose which messages I'd successfully received via email and then just delete *those*, which seems way more work than it's worth. . Is there a means of simply dumping all of one's PMs as straight HTML output viewable ON the site, like most other forum systems do? Then the user can simply download that as HTML or text and save it off however they want. Going through the overhead of batching it up for emailing to [possibly broken] recipient addresses is klunky at best, and now coupled with a nondeterministic selection process [with no option for "just give me everything"] is a true pain in the tuchus. . Advice welcome. I really am trying to clean up, but it's not making it an easy process. . _H*
Okay, I think I have a partial solution. I wanted to archive the "sent items" folder, which when mailed to myself originally contained a random, out-of-order selection of what was in there [since I could only pick 50 msgs at a time]. . What seems to straighten things out is to create a new folder, and then select and move all the messages in the original folder over to the new one. Then archive. That seems to linearize it in the database, so "first 50" becomes meaningful. . _H*
