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isis7475

how do you send private messages?
i have written it but it will not go anywhere.
it just stays in the outbox.
either that or it has been delivered at the other end 15 times and the other person thinks i am crazy.

isis

Hal Jones · **Joined:** Tue March 27th, 2007, 21:24 GMT **Posts:** 7726

Until they read/open it I think it stays in the OUTBOX.

isis7475

thanks.

so maybe it is not me. it is the system.

isis

lilyofhearts2.

Hi, isis.

If you wrote one during the changeover, it may have gotten stuck, as I had that problem too. Maybe you could open it, cut and paste to a new pm, send that one.

best of luck.

isis7475

hi lily,
thanks but this was some i was sending last night.

maybe it is as hal said, it stays in the outbox until the other person opens it.

isis

Mad Cow

phpBB User Guide wrote:

SENT MESSAGES will appear in either the OUTBOX or the SENT MESSAGES folder. As long as the recipient(s) have not yet read the message, it will stay in the OUTBOX. As soon as someone reads the message it will be archived to the SENT MESSAGES folder. If the administrator allows it, you can edit messages after sending them as long as they are in the OUTBOX and the recipients have not yet read them.

GypsyDaisy

Are Private message actually Private?? or do the Mods have to read it first??

Mad Cow

Mods or admins have no access to PMs.

onemorecup

This may be a very naive question, but what does the PM filter do? I had a message this morning to say that a PM in my inbox had been removed by the filter before I could read it. Ought I to be grateful for this?

MatchStriker · **Joined:** Sun May 24th, 2009, 00:52 GMT **Posts:** 4272

onemorecup wrote:

This may be a very naive question, but what does the PM filter do? I had a message this morning to say that a PM in my inbox had been removed by the filter before I could read it. Ought I to be grateful for this?

I get an annoying number of those myself. I believe it means that someone has changed their mind about sending and has deleted the message.

onemorecup

OK thanks, Matchstriker. I'll assume that nothing sinister was going on. If it happens repeatedly is there any way of finding out what the problem is? Forgive me, I have no technical knowledge whatsoever and assumed that a 'PM filter' was some way of automatically detecting offensive material. :shock:

MatchStriker · **Joined:** Sun May 24th, 2009, 00:52 GMT **Posts:** 4272

I don't think that's what it means but I'll double-check. :wink:

ETA: From Info & Assist/User Guide: 5.5.4. Message filters
"TODO: How to work with message filters. That is quite a complex system".
:lol:

onemorecup

Never mind then, we won't worry our pretty little heads about it. :lol:

Anyway I now have a message in my Inbox explaining that the message was indeed deleted by the sender.

Expecting Rain

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