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I am using the Privatemsg and Rules module and I am trying to set up an automatically generated welcome message to new members registering on the site. This message will go into the new member's inbox.

I do not see a token that would allow the site's name to be the sender. All I see is the token for the logged in user. As expected, this doesn't trigger the message.

I have toyed with the [account] token. So when John creates an account, the message comes from John himself. This would be acceptable but it isn't consistent: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I know some tokens exist that are not always displayed. Does anyone have the name of the mysterious token? Or the magic to get this to work?

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You could create an account for sending the messages and in rules, use direct input and enter its user id. That way, you could also see replies to welcome message.

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  • This approach only works if the account is an administrator and creates a new account for a user (token is "logged-in-user".) But with a newcomer creating his own account, no message is sent. There isn't the possibility of assigning a certain user or the site as the sender.
    – user14666
    Commented Feb 9, 2016 at 19:03
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    Did you click "Switch to Direct Input Mode" in the rules action for "Send message" and enter the uid of the sender?
    – Niall Murphy
    Commented Feb 10, 2016 at 3:36
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    @NiallMurphy : even though it was not part of the question, you could take this a step further, using Menu Badges and its integration with the Privatemsg module ... to produce such "shiny" iOS style of (red) msg notification ...
    – Pierre.Vriens
    Commented Aug 26, 2016 at 9:47
  • Good idea! I've never seen that module before..
    – Niall Murphy
    Commented Aug 26, 2016 at 10:00
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Here's the site name token: [site:name]

Full list of tokens: https://www.drupal.org/node/390482

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  • Unfortunately, this token is not accepted by privatemsg.
    – user14666
    Commented Feb 9, 2016 at 4:19

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