About private messages: the Outbox

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About private messages: the Outbox

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Here's a clarification about a feature of private messages that has confused me and others:

When you send a private message, it will appear in your Outbox folder. As long as the recipient(s) have not yet read the message, it will stay in the Outbox. As soon as someone reads the message it will be archived to the Sent messages folder.

This is different from the behavior of the Outbox in e-mail programs such as Outlook. An e-mail message will be in the Outbox only while it is being sent; as soon as it has been sent, it is moved to Sent Items. As mentioned above, this is not true for private messages in Eileen's Lounge.

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Best wishes,
Hans