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Anyone else having problems sending private messages?

Tried to send with an attachment and it says I am not authorised !!!


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I get that from time to time but not regarding attachments but text in the message. The board doesn't like some text in single quotes - I think - but it might be double. It sees it as potentially malevolent code and prevents it being sent. I normally amend the text and it goes.

I have just sent you an .ini file that is zipped up and it went successfully.

Does this scenario sound plausible?
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Firebird wrote: 29 Apr 2022, 09:52 I get that from time to time but not regarding attachments but text in the message. The board doesn't like some text in single quotes - I think - but it might be double. It sees it as potentially malevolent code and prevents it being sent. I normally amend the text and it goes.

I have just sent you an .ini file that is zipped up and it went successfully.

Does this scenario sound plausible?
Just sent a message to yourself with attachment.

When I preview the message I get the not authorised message, but it seems to send OK.
Well confused.

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jimrodger wrote: 29 Apr 2022, 09:59
Firebird wrote: 29 Apr 2022, 09:52 I get that from time to time but not regarding attachments but text in the message. The board doesn't like some text in single quotes - I think - but it might be double. It sees it as potentially malevolent code and prevents it being sent. I normally amend the text and it goes.

I have just sent you an .ini file that is zipped up and it went successfully.

Does this scenario sound plausible?
Just sent a message to yourself with attachment.

When I preview the message I get the not authorised message, but it seems to send OK.
The original message had no funny quotes or symbols. Just basic text..
Well confused.

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just replied back to you and previewed but I did not get the error.

I will have to let Greg check out whether it is a glitch, a setting personal to you or a global thing.
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Thanks for the check. I know it worked last week. Possibly associated with the attachment limit thingie.

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Jim, is the forum telling you that you're not authorised or do you get a completely white screen with black "unauthorised" text?

If it happens again, please report the exact date and time so that I can narrow my search in the logs. We get so many malicious attempts on our servers that there are thousands of lines in the error logs each day. A narrower scope would really help in finding the issue.
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Tried again....PM sent with screenshots.


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Just tried to reply to John Tenn's Moody A-10 repaints with a jpg attachment and it tells me I cannot reply in this form.

Well confused.

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Just tried to send a couple of PMs to the staff list, seemed to work OK. Went to check outbox/sent items nothing in either.

No quotes or any weird text.

Well confused

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Hey Jim,

I received both PM's. But unfortunately I still don't know why you're having issues and why you seem to be the only one. I have escalated this to the phpBB support team.
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Greg wrote: 26 May 2022, 18:42 Hey Jim,

I received both PM's. But unfortunately I still don't know why you're having issues and why you seem to be the only one. I have escalated this to the phpBB support team.
Cheers Greg.

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