SMF User Help: Personal Message

Personal Messaging

Description

While email is a good way to correspond directly with members, it also has several drawbacks for forum purposes: you must open your email application to write and send the message, the recipient must open his/her email application and check his/her mail, your message will be mixed in with all the other mail and it can sometimes take several minutes to an hour for mail to reach the recipient.

As an alternative to email, SMF offers a faster, more private method. Personal messaging on the boards provides instantaneous delivery to the recipient's private mailbox. The mail is sent and received entirely through SMF, so neither you nor the recipient have to open another program or leave SMF. Personal messaging also offers both the sender and the recipient greater privacy because no-one's real email address is revealed. Personal messages show only the handle and name of both parties.

If a recipient isn't online, personal messages wait in the member's PM box until the next time he/she logs in and reads and/or deletes them. SMF Personal Messages is a self-contained, highly private email system.

Reading Your Messages

To read your personal messages, you need to be logged in, then follow the link that says something like 'Hey, [username], you have x messages, x are new'.

The PM Interface

The PM interface is similar in operation to that of the message index. While we are showing the inbox interface here, the outbox works in much the same way:

Some forums show the navigation tree at the top in a space-saving horizontal mode.

The main Delete button deletes all messages in your inbox (or outbox if open). Note that the checkbox and lower Delete button also allow you to delete selected messages, with the top checkbox selecting all.

The Outbox button toggles to your outbox, where it obviously becomes an Inbox button.

The New Message button enables you to start a new message, which is similar to starting a new topic but adds 'To:' and 'Bcc:' (blind carbon copy) fields and the option to save to your outbox.

The Reload button checks for new messages by refreshing the page.

The Date, Subject, and From links enable you to sort the columns by these parameters (with Date also toggling between descending and ascending order as indicated by the little arrow).

The main subject title links to the start of the message, which will be further down the same page.

The page numbers link to further pages of messages as applicable.

Starting or Replying to a Message

There are actually several different ways to start a new personal message, but all require you to be logged in:

You can follow the link that says something like 'Hey, [username], you have x messages, x are new', then click the New Message button in your inbox.

You can click another member's name, followed by Send this member a personal message from his/her profile summary screen.

You can start a new message direct by clicking the IM on/offline icon from the user info accompanying all of his/her posts.

You can start a new message direct by clicking the PM on/offline icon from the Current Status in his/her profile summary screen. (This icon/link is often duplicated in the user info described above.)

Replying to a message is very similar to replying to a topic.

Chatbox

18, February, 2021, 03:25:26 PM

Salanewt: The one here has everything: http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=132

18, February, 2021, 02:03:20 PM

VardenSalad: It looks like Atrius' editor download is broken again. The only thing in the .zip is the background image

13, February, 2021, 03:15:41 PM

MaxiPower: Welcom back Charon. been a long time.

11, February, 2021, 09:40:04 PM

Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas: ~~So how long is this site going to be "This website is still under construction, please excuse the mess."~~ :D

04, February, 2021, 12:56:21 AM

charon the ferryman: LMAO i love 2010 tech

04, February, 2021, 12:56:07 AM

charon the ferryman: release me from my discord prison meme mortals

15, November, 2020, 03:45:26 PM

Salanewt: We're more alive than the board implies; most discussion takes place over on the Discord server.

15, November, 2020, 03:45:06 PM

Salanewt: Haha, heya!

15, November, 2020, 02:07:50 PM

Frog: Nice to see this place is still alive...ish anyway xD

30, October, 2020, 11:10:23 PM

Salanewt: ... Actually, it's almost time for me to post an update on the forum. It's been coming along really nicely overall, and it was only a couple months or so ago that I added some new status effects to the game.

30, October, 2020, 11:08:41 PM

Salanewt: I need to get it done to start making progress on the parts of the AI Overhaul I want to start working on.

30, October, 2020, 11:08:14 PM

Salanewt: It's going well! I wanted to get more of my djinn reform done this week but I've been busy with other things sadly.

30, October, 2020, 09:58:14 PM

KyleRunner: Hi guys! How are you doing?

13, October, 2020, 11:19:21 AM

MaxiPower: first chapter of my golden sun inspired webtoon is now live. be cool if yas could check it out. https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/legacy-of-the-lost-dragoon/the-northern-reaches/viewer?title_no=508487&episode_no=6

31, August, 2020, 08:40:32 AM

Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas: Being able to convert IPS files to text files to also supporting commenting, and convert back to IPS after changes.... sounds like a fun strategy?

27, August, 2020, 10:37:30 PM

Salanewt: Hey, thanks!

25, August, 2020, 12:59:22 AM

Foreclosure: Yo! Looking forward for this AI OVerhaul patch when it's finished :) :)

19, August, 2020, 07:00:17 PM

Salanewt: That's awesome! I'm pretty good; been working on an AI Overhaul project and have made some nice progress in the past couple weeks; the goal for tonight is to add Deadbeard to GS2 and then I can move onto something new.

19, August, 2020, 01:14:56 PM

Awec: Ye not bad, just checked back in for updates on GS Reloaded really. Although now I'm looking back through some of my old forum posts, which is fun :D how are you?

19, August, 2020, 01:43:07 AM

Salanewt: It sure is! How have you been?

16, August, 2020, 09:40:57 AM

Awec: Yo nice to see this forum is still going

14, August, 2020, 09:06:44 PM

Salanewt: Hey! How goes it?

01, August, 2020, 01:31:53 PM

KyleRunner: Hello, people!

08, July, 2020, 08:57:11 PM

Salanewt: That awkward feeling when almost a quarter of a year goes by without anyone posting a message in this chatbox.

27, April, 2020, 07:54:10 PM

Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas: I'm having a thought. So I know Atrius's editor is slow at saving sprites.... So I've been thinking. I am considering another console program. This time, for importing and exporting sprites/animations. Image files (for sprites), binary files (for animation data), and maybe binary or text files for Settings. Would certainly be cool if it works out. - Console programs are fun, when you can (at least temporarily) cheat out making a full interface editor for them. =P

25, April, 2020, 10:42:07 PM

Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas: Tried to list those in order of importance, but anyway....

25, April, 2020, 10:37:59 PM

Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas: GSHC, GS Speedrunning, /r/Golden Sun, GS United Nations, ToK. Sixth one is border-line I'm not sure.

25, April, 2020, 08:00:21 PM

Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas: (low as in <100)

25, April, 2020, 08:00:04 PM

Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas: So while there are quite a few GS Communities out there. There are only up to maybe ~6 Discords worth even the consideration of joining, I think. Most of the rest of them have a fairly low member count. (Of which I can tell?)

14, April, 2020, 10:49:35 AM

Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas: The Essential Age could be what it stands for?

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