Private Messages Slow to Leave Outbox

[Al B.]

Does anyone else have the problem that I sometimes experience - that private messages can take a long time to leave your outbox?

I drafted a reply to a private message I received at lunchtime today. 5½ hours later, I looked and the message is still sitting in my outbox waiting to be delivered to the lucky recipient.

Or do messages sit in my outbox until the person its addressed to logs on?

Alex

[Andy Velebil]

I've PM a few times and never noticed a problem.

[Frederick Blais]

Alex, I was not even aware until tonight that we had an Outbox :) I took a look and saw that a message intended for Roy from the 30th of December was still in it!

I don't know how to resend it though...

[Al B.]

Fred,

The only way I have found to resend a message "stuck" in my outbox is to open it up again (by using the edit button on the top reight of the message field) making a minor change and then clicking "submit" again.

Alex

[David G.]

I have that issue also. Even the edit/submit on the message stuck in the outbox does not always send it.

[Mario Ferreira]

I'm not very sure on this but I guess that your PM will leave "Outbox" and moves to "Sentbox" once it's read by the recipient (the "lucky recipient" as Alex Bridgema puts it :) ).

So, my guess is, if a PM is still sitting in your "Outbox" that means that your lucky recipient has not checked his/her "Inbox" messages yet.
- Technology has its issues :) ....
... anyway, maybe Roy can check with Stewart about this issue.

[Roy Hersh]

I can assure you that Stewart has been alerted and will check on this.


Thanks!

[Guest]

Mario is, in fact, correct.

It's not that the PM are slow to be delivered, they simply remain in your Outbook until the recipient reads them.

Cheers!
Stewart

[Al B.]

Stewart

That explains the mystery - it also allows us to harangue the person we are sending to if they do not read the message.

Thanks for the explanation!

Alex