You dont need that many tables like brian suggested. All you need is
two, users and messages.

messages:
- id
- user_id (sender)
- recipient_id (receiver)
- subject
- content
- status (read, unread, etc)
- userFolder (inbox, sent, trash)
- recipientFolder (inbox, sent, trash)
- created
- modified

On Sep 24, 12:14 pm, John Andersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is late (here in Latvia) and I am not sure that I remember
> correctly what I saw while playing around with saving HABTM associated
> data.
>
> If correctly, then providing the associated model as:
>
> $data[associatedModel][associatedModel] = array();
>
> deletes all the associations between the main model and the associated
> model.
>
> But this is from memory (soft tissue, may fail to retrieve
> correctly) :D so may somewhat be wrong!
> Enjoy,
>    John
>
> On Sep 24, 7:35 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > That's a good question. I'm actually not sure how best to unlink a
> > pair of records. You could always add an id column to the join table
> > and do $this->Message->InboxMessage->del($id). But you'd need to
> > determine the $id first.
>
> > The other way would be to use a plain SQL:
> > $this->Message->query('DELETE FROM inboxes_messages WHERE message_id =
> > '.$message_id);
>
> > There's a Model::_deleteLinks() method that does just this but it's
> > protected. Maybe someone else knows the proper Cake way to do this.
>
> > You might also find Mariano's SoftDeletableBehavior of 
> > use:http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/soft-delete-behavior
>
> > Just be aware that it's a few years old and may require some syntax
> > adjustments. I don't know if it's been kept up to date. Read the
> > comments in the article.
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