Problems with Private Messages

[FCIN]

I'm wondering why PM's often seem to sit in the outbox for long periods of time. For example, I sent a PM on 20110311 at 20:52 hrs and it sat in the outbox for almost 48 hours before it appeared to actually be sent. This has happened a couple of times. Don't think I'm doing anything wrong, but just seems like the messages don't always get sent immediately.

Thanks!

[ngauger]

It's not you - it's the recipient The messages are sitting there ready to be "read" by the person you sent them to. you can edit them or delete them before they are read.

When the person reads them, they disappear from your outbox. That's how you can tell they were read. So any message in your outbox, has not been seen yet by the recipient.

I've had messages waiting up to 3 days for members to sign in and "Check their (PM) mail"

[FCIN]

Okie-dokie! Now I understand. I thought that perhaps something was wrong with the software or maybe I'm just too used to sending email messages that blast off into the electron zone regardless of when they are read at the other end.

Thanks for setting me straight.

[ngauger]

Thanks for reporting the "potential" problem I was the same way when we first had the board running..

Wait! Shouldn't they disappear???

[ezdays]

This really is a cool feature. One of the rare times that you can actually change your mind after hitting the "send" button... Yes, as Mikey says, you can edit or even delete your message if it is still in your "outbox". I sometimes wish my email had one like this. :oops: :oops:

[FCIN]

I sometimes wish my email had one like this. :oops: :oops:

This is a nice feature now that I think about it. How many of us have sent a message to the wrong person and didn't realize it until the damage was done?