When/how do PMs get sent?

Carl Fisher · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 4:31 pm

What is the deal with the Outbox for PMs? I don't see any way to send them (other than the regular "submit" button). Usually it seems they "go by themselves" after something like 30 to 60 minutes, but now I've got 2 posts that have been sitting in my Outbox for more than 12 hours so far!

Is it safe to say at this point that these messages are never going to be delivered, or should I hold on to the hope? Should I just print the damn things out, bring them to the next club meeting and hand them to the recipient myself?

What is the deal with that wacky Outbox anyway? Any PHPBB gurus out there?

Jason Mauldin · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 4:39 pm

They are in your outbox until the recipient looks at them.

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 4:50 pm

Carl, I just looked at the one you sent me, so it should no longer be in your outbox.

Also, I believe that the email notification is sent right after you send the PM. We have had some on/off email issues that Jason and I talked about very briefly. Situation in which we get errors back from our hosting provider with messages like...

Code:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  blah@nc.rr.com
    unrouteable mail domain "nc.rr.com"

Now, nc.rr.com is not an unrouteable mail domain. For some reason sometimes our provider can't send out the email. There are other reasons that people may not get the email notification. Bad addresses, full mailboxes, etc. So sometimes people don't get the email notification.

But when they visit, they still should get the pop-up that lets them know they have a PM. But I guess if they have pop-ups blocked, then unless they happen to see the "You have X new messages" at the top, they may never figure out that they have a PM to read.

Carl Fisher · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 6:57 pm

Jason Mauldin wrote:

They are in your outbox until the recipient looks at them.

Aha- that makes some sense! Thanks Jason! :-)

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 7:16 pm

Carl Fisher wrote:

Jason Mauldin wrote:

They are in your outbox until the recipient looks at them.

Aha- that makes some sense! Thanks Jason! :-)

You can still "take them back" if they are in the outbox. So if you say something stoopid, you can recind it

George Bright · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 8:27 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

You can still "take them back" if they are in the outbox. So if you say something stoopid, you can recind it

Who sends out PMs in anger without thinking? :lol:

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

Ryan Holton wrote:

So if you say something stoopid, you can recind it

Also, if you misspell something, you can rescind it.

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