In the administration of the fields, you can set the notify_method to default to email instead pm. However, existing users will already have pm set in their existing profiles, so you will have to run a sql command to change all the existing users to email instead of pm (or edit their accounts individually).

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ok but how?

Hi Guys,

just to clear this up for any beginners out there like me :)

The best way to do this so that your Users get email notification in XOOPS instead of just private message for any entries they make in a Helpdesk, Forum, etc, is to change a few lines in the XOOPS MySQL.

I simply went into my favourite MySQL GUI program (MySQLyog), found the prefix_users table, (prefix will be whatever number XOOPS used to generate a random name for all of your SQL tables) and looked for the column called 'notify_method'.

You can use the method mentioned above to run a query to update all existing users
(UPDATE prefix_users SET notify_method=2 where notify_method=1;)

To set the default notification method for new Users I then altered the notify_method field of the prefix_users table to show a 2 instead of a 1.
Now all my existing and new Users have email as their default.

Hope that helps if you need it still :)

Russ