SMF User Help: Personal Message

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SMF is about community and communication. And there are many ways to communicate, such as posting to the boards, personal messaging, email, ICQ, AIM and YIM. But SMF's own personal message system, as available to registered members in most forums, is sometimes a more suitable option than any of these.

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.

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Today at 08:57:37 PM

Fox: @conundrum = Think about 8/16/32 bit aligned address, and what that means... Etc.

Today at 08:55:23 PM

Fox: @Space manager thought for gsmagic = What a conundrum... Whelp... I'll just do whatever.... Probably would waste more time thinking about preventing bugs than coding anyway. :P

Yesterday at 09:30:34 AM

Fox: Because he quit a long time ago and has other priorities?

Yesterday at 08:35:54 AM

javi3: Atrius, por que no sigues con el editor de golden sun?

June 20, 2017, 10:52:48 AM

Fox: It feels like the safest bet is to do Atrius's repointering system, and have something that organizes the tables done a bit separate... er... Well, it's something to think about.

June 20, 2017, 08:53:41 AM

Fox: HOWEVER... I can see other problems that might cause..... (Even with just the pointer in the MFT) Meh. It's like you actually need a program to apply patches to do it appropriately.

June 20, 2017, 08:46:38 AM

Fox: ... So... What am I thinking? You ask? That the patches the point data after MFT, should have had pointers in the MFT themselves.... In that case, I can see a possibility of everything working smoothly even if space is needed to the very end of the ROM.

June 20, 2017, 08:37:22 AM

Fox: It's basically that everthink from the point of editing, to the closest free space to the last entry's address would get repointed forward/backwards depending on space needed... and if space is mapped after patches are added, then that could mean the patches are also repointed. (:o)

June 20, 2017, 08:29:03 AM

Fox: Well, I mean if I map the space out the same way Atrius did it.

June 20, 2017, 08:26:41 AM

Fox: I have a hunch... when I add Map Palette editing the way I'm thinking about... it will cause all patches that repoint to after the MFT to break.... Especially if Atrius's editor wasn't used beforehand. Etc.

June 20, 2017, 07:27:17 AM

Fox: Hmmm... Let's see... regardless of method, I think I still do want to take some of Atrius's Space Manager code... Hmm.....

June 20, 2017, 07:07:27 AM

Fox: say*

June 20, 2017, 07:07:19 AM

Fox: I'd go so far as to see.. even if you are trying to be accurate, there could still be inaccuracies... However, that one was just an example where it was clearly intentional.

June 20, 2017, 07:04:03 AM

Fox: Like*

June 20, 2017, 07:03:55 AM

Fox: Let that one time where they tried to clip a guy out... To put it as short and vague as possible.

June 20, 2017, 06:58:52 AM

Fox: But in case you do watch it... I do know the story on TV that they tell... is not always accurate to what actually happened... (From what one can find out from the feed.) ... but usually the fansites will let you know about that.

June 20, 2017, 06:37:54 AM

Fox: Depends, as each person may have a different opinion... (I'm thinking you might find it like other "reality" shows..) ... I'm not really into Survivor at current.... I also question if it was something about Julie Chen that made it a little more interesting.... .being the an iconic host that she is.. Weird.

June 19, 2017, 11:57:31 PM

Dendrophiliafish_the_skull_licker_xxXXDx101XyeahbabyyeahxxXX: Honest opinion but is it any good or is it just like all other "reality" television?

June 19, 2017, 11:57:00 PM

Dendrophiliafish_the_skull_licker_xxXXDx101XyeahbabyyeahxxXX: I have a friend who is obsessed with that show and Survivor and he wants me to watch with him.

June 19, 2017, 07:47:18 PM

Fox: So.. as soon as I saw the cast of BB19, I wanted to try to pick my favs on first impression... And I'm curious about these: Elena Davies (Female pick, maybe.) and Kevin Schlehuber (Male pick, maybe. - He's the oldest.) ... whether they even get close to the end or not... I have no idea. Would have to watch them play the game.

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