A lot of people don't seem to know what the PM (
Private Messages) function in the forums is so thought I'd post this.
The PM function allows members to send private messages to each other in the forums. You will notice one of the buttons at the top of the main page says
Private Messages. When you click on that if you have any private messages then it will show them to you as well as any PMs that you may have already read and not deleted. Its a good idea to keep your PMs pruned though because there is a limit on the number you have in your Inbox at a given time.
There are several other options in there and one is Outbox where messages you have sent to other members are stored (until they read them). If they never read them because they don't know they have them then they stay there until you delete them. Once a person reads their PMs then they disappear from your Outbox.
Note the picture below.
You can set your Preference in your
Profile which can also be gotten to through one of the buttons at the top of the forums. In your profile you can check for the software to send you an email and let you know you have a PM waiting. You can also check the option for it to do a popup when you log on and have a private message.
See below.
There are problems with both options though IF you have a popup blocker on your computer or in some cases spam blockers if it thinks the notification message you received was spam. (Not good at all on that one!)
If you have a popup blocker then it will likely block the popup trying to tell you you have a PM. If the spam blocker puts the notification email you would have received in a spam folder then unless you check that folder you would never know you had one.
There is a third failsafe, but a lot of people overlook that to. It is that at the top right when you go to the forums you will see several lines of text saying:
You have no new messages
View posts since last visit
View unanswered posts
Mark all forums read
Of course if you have one or more PMs that you haven't read then the top line would say
You have 1 new private message
Of course if you had more than 1 then the 1 would be replaced with that number.
Hopefully this will help those who have never used the PMs.
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