Sorry for the entire topic about it but I don't know if notifcations are very clear. :)
mine puts a huge message at the top of the screen if i have a pm.
Thanks, I know the PM has landed in his Inbox (cos it left my Outbox when he logged on at lunchtime. However, as they say, you can lead a megastar to water but you can't make him read his PMs!
Hopefully he'll have a look when he is next between boxed sets of "Last of the Summer Wine".... ;)
Jem's got a secret admirer.
Wouldn't Jem know if he had a... Ohhh, a "P"M. Never mind.
I had to wait till noon for my pm. :(
Is Iceland's going to resign?
When are we going to get a decent one in this country?
Quote from: "Stuart"When are we going to get a decent one in this country?
As soon as you put the wall back up? Until then I guess you're saddled with ours.... ;)
Do PM's stay in your outbox until read?
I'm not really sure but I think they stay in your Outbox until the recipient logs in.
I don't think the sender has any way of knowing if the recipient has actaully read them...hence my (apparently stupid) belt, braces and staple-gun approach of posting what seemed to be a pointless thread. :roll:
I knew Jem was online cos he was posting at the time but, unless you have the popup setting switched on, I think the only clue you have a message is the small count at the top of the screen....easy for someone as busy as Jem to miss.
Of course, we also shouldn't rule out the "Oh no, another PM from Pedro" effect.... ;)
Quote from: "Pedro"I'm not really sure but I think they stay in your Outbox until the recipient logs in.
Hmm. Good point.
A further test is in order...
On other forums I moderate the PM stays in your outbox until the person you sent it to opens the PM
Quote from: "RacingHippo"Quote from: "Pedro"I'm not really sure but I think they stay in your Outbox until the recipient logs in.
Hmm. Good point.
A further test is in order...
What did our test prove?
Just that we were logged in? or that it had been read?
Maybe we should have put a time on it.
Hang on, if it stayed in your outbox then it was there until read, as I was logged in
Quote from: "Mikey"Quote from: "RacingHippo"Quote from: "Pedro"I'm not really sure but I think they stay in your Outbox until the recipient logs in.
Hmm. Good point.
A further test is in order...
What did our test prove?
Just that we were logged in? or that it had been read?
Maybe we should have put a time on it.
Hang on, if it stayed in your outbox then it was there until read, as I was logged in
Ahh, even gooder point.
Tell you what - conclusive test coming up....
Quote from: "RacingHippo"Quote from: "Mikey"Quote from: "RacingHippo"Quote from: "Pedro"I'm not really sure but I think they stay in your Outbox until the recipient logs in.
Hmm. Good point.
A further test is in order...
What did our test prove?
Just that we were logged in? or that it had been read?
Maybe we should have put a time on it.
Hang on, if it stayed in your outbox then it was there until read, as I was logged in
Ahh, even gooder point.
Tell you what - conclusive test coming up....
Its showing as new message, but I haven;'t read it yet,
Is it still in your outbox?
Except there are now 2 , haven't read either yet
Quote from: "Mikey"Its showing as new message, but I haven;'t read it yet,
Is it still in your outbox?
Except there are now 2 , haven't read either yet
Hang on.
Now both have gone.
You read it didn't you? Santa WILL be disappointed.
Quote from: "RacingHippo"Quote from: "Mikey"Its showing as new message, but I haven;'t read it yet,
Is it still in your outbox?
Except there are now 2 , haven't read either yet
Hang on.
Now both have gone.
You read it didn't you? Santa WILL be disappointed.
Have only read the one, but it knows, I know, there's another unread message, I now have no new messages, just 1 that is unread.
So, szabiakanich has n't received the one I sent the other night then. That's OK. Thought it hadn't sent properly
Quote from: "Mikey"Quote from: "RacingHippo"Quote from: "Mikey"Its showing as new message, but I haven;'t read it yet,
Is it still in your outbox?
Except there are now 2 , haven't read either yet
Hang on.
Now both have gone.
You read it didn't you? Santa WILL be disappointed.
Have only read the one, but it knows, I know, there's another unread message, I now have no new messages, just 1 that is unread.
So, szabiakanich has n't received the one I sent the other night then. That's OK. Thought it hadn't sent properly
So is it the act of viewing your inbox that clears it out of my outbox??
So what do you see of the two you sent me RH?
I've only opened one....
Quote from: "Pedro"So what do you see of the two you sent me RH?
I've only opened one....
Looks like he's gone.
If you open one, it marks the other one as not being new, i.e no new messages, but you still have one message saying unread.
Quote from: "Pedro"So what do you see of the two you sent me RH?
I've only opened one....
Both have disappeared from my outbox.
That suggests to me that it's the act of viewing your inbox that "delivers" the PM.
There's a discussion about the PM system on the PHPBB support forum here (//http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=675335) but all it says is "this looks broken", "no it's not", "it's counter-intuitive then", "actually, it isn't" and descends into not so much a flame war as a hair-dryer skirmish.
(I can't wait to see how this one ends...)
(the suspense is killing me)
(its a nailbiter, that's for sure)
(I'm on the edge of my seat)
(Wake me up when something happens)
wuts goin on in dis thred
Are we there yet :?:
(Be vewwy, vewwy quiet...I'm hunting wabbits! )
Quote from: "MikeEvs"Are we there yet :?:
Maybe, but we're not sure how we'll know...are we there when we can't see here anymore or when we can't see there anymore? :?
Quote from: "Pedro"Quote from: "MikeEvs"Are we there yet :?:
Maybe, but we're not sure how we'll know...are we there when we can't see here anymore or when we can't see there anymore? :?
Where is here?
Here is now?
hair dryer skirmish
great name for a band.
8-)
Quote from: "tomskerous"(I can't wait to see how this one ends...)
Those who had PM's sitting in their outbox would have known that they had been sent but the recipients Inbox not opened. Unlike Microsoft where it would not have been sent.
Hope the suspense didn't kill anyone :D
Is there a band called "The Suspense"?
If not, shall we form one?