Please Clean your PM Box

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Scott Greczkowski

Discussion Starter · Jul 19, 2002

Just a friendly note reminding everyone that you should clear out your Private Message box from time to time.

There is a limit to the number of messages that can be stored in your PM box. When cleaning out your PM box please remember to also clean your Sent Items folder as well. (This is actually where most people forget to clean)

When your PM mailbox fills up you get annoying PM's telling you to clean out your mailbox from the server.

Thanks everyone!

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MarkA

· #2 · Jul 19, 2002

Trust him guys. I got not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven, but EIGHT identical emails telling me to clean it outsent by the server. It's much nicer and easier just to keep it clean!

Kevin

· #3 · Jul 19, 2002

And when someone sends you a PM when your inbox is full, you never get the PM at all! Instead, you get the annoying automated message from the server like Scott said. Happened to me once.

James_F

· #4 · Jul 19, 2002

It would be nice to be able to turn off keeping a sent copy of a PM...

Scott Greczkowski

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jul 21, 2002

Good news,

On the main forums page you will notice that there is now a PM Gauge display which shows you how close your mailbox is to being full.

When your in the Green, Your good. When your in the Yellow you should consider cleaning your box, and if your in the red chances are you will not receive a PM being sent to you, clean out your box.

Thanks to Mark for bring the PM mailbox full problems to my attention.

Enjoy!

Scott Greczkowski

Discussion Starter · #6 · Jul 21, 2002

I have also just changed the Send a PM screen, now the "Save a Copy" is UNCHECKED by deafult. (Before it was tuned on by default) To save a copy of the message you sent just check the box.

Have fun!

James_F

· #7 · Jul 21, 2002

Cool, thanks Scott. This is going to save lots of time! :righton:

MarkA

· #8 · Jul 21, 2002

Cool! Thanks

MarkA

· #9 · Jul 21, 2002

Only one problem, with 14 messages it shows 28% full. which would indicate 50 allowed messages, when I was cut off and sent the annoying emails at 30...

Scott Greczkowski

Discussion Starter · #10 · Jul 21, 2002

I raised the amount of messages to 50.

Explains that huh?

Scott Greczkowski

Discussion Starter · #11 · Jul 21, 2002

I just made the PM area much more user friendly (and in there I also put a gauge as well)

Let me know what you think.

MarkA

· #12 · Jul 21, 2002

PMs are now much much nicer. Good job Scott!

Nick

· #13 · Jul 22, 2002

"When your in the Green, Your good. When your in the Yellow you should consider cleaning your box, and if your in the red chances are you will not receive a PM being sent to you, clean out your box."

The Director of Homeland Security would be proud!

What color tells us it's about to BLOW and we should run like HELL???

JBKing

· #14 · Jul 22, 2002

..and if your gauge is flashing... you have 50 PM's from Mark!

John Hodgson

· #15 · Jul 22, 2002

...... how is it that I have ZERO sent messages, ZERO unread messages, ZERO's all the way across the board, and yet the 'guage' shows 66% useage?

Scott Greczkowski

Discussion Starter · #16 · Jul 22, 2002

It likes you John

Nick

· #17 · Jul 22, 2002

Shhhh! It's because you have a bunch of

Secret Help Messages

...from Dan.

Geronimo

· #18 · Jul 22, 2002

I would like to clean my PM box but have a devil of a time getting the messages to show up so i can delete them. It still shows me with one message but I cant read it or remove it. I have tried setting it for various lengths of time it still won't appear.

Scott Greczkowski

Discussion Starter · #19 · Jul 22, 2002

I am willing to bet you had someone on ignore who sent you private messages before.

Keep an eye on it, if need be I will have to go into the database and yank those out by hand.

Geronimo

· #20 · Jul 22, 2002

Thanks. Somehow one message from that individual showed up and another did not. Odd but the mystery is now solved I guess.

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