How To Access Your Personal Mail (PM)

[Hoist!]

The banner at the top of each page will show you whether or not you have a Personal Message (PM) waiting for you.  See the below attachment for an example.  To retrieve the PM, click on the "My Messages" area.  It is a hot link that will take you to your PM inbox.

[CCR]

There are many ways to communicate, such as posting to the boards, personal messaging, email, ICQ, AIM and YIM. But our CVOGarage's own personal message system, is available to all our registered members and may be a more suitable option than any of these.

Personal Messaging Description

Personal messages (or pms for short) are a lot like posts, but instead of being posted in a topic they are sent to one or more members. Typically, personal messages are private correspondence, and they are only viewable by the sender and intended recipients - administrators cannot view other's messages except through the database.

Personal messages cannot be sent by guests or to guests. However, if the sender is deleted sometime after they send the message, they will appear as a guest.

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 or more for mail to reach the recipient.

As an alternative to email, our forum offers a faster, more private method. Personal messaging (PM) on the boards provides instantaneous delivery to the recipient's private mailbox. The mail is sent and received entirely through our forum, so neither you nor the recipient have to open another program or leave the CVOGarage. 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. CVOGarage 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:

• 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.

[CCR]

The question has come up, and so we provide the answer...

The owners of the software that runs the CVO Garage, strongly emphasizes individual privacy.
For this reason, the owners of the software will not provide an interface to allow anyone (including Administrators) to view other members’ Personal Messages.

If however, you ever feel that you have received a Personal Message that makes you uncomfortable, we encourage members to report PMs to any of the moderators and we will do our best to assist you.

[Twolanerider]

If however, you ever feel that you have received a Personal Message that makes you uncomfortable, we encourage members to report PMs to any of the moderators and we will do our best to assist you.

I have just suffered through exactly this circumstance.  Thought it best to air it out publicly and in as non-accusatory fashion as I could.  Received a message that was uncomfortably suggestive in several ways.  Linked to very unsettling imagery and full of wholly disgusting textual references.  Was very surprised that anyone, nonetheless anyone here, was wired so far from accepted norms that ideas such as those transmitted therein would be considered as anything even close to acceptable.  I was surprised, that is, until I saw who had sent the message.  It came from me.

[Florida Marine]

I have just suffered through exactly this circumstance.  Thought it best to air it out publicly and in as non-accusatory fashion as I could.  Received a message that was uncomfortably suggestive in several ways.  Linked to very unsettling imagery and full of wholly disgusting textual references.  Was very surprised that anyone, nonetheless anyone here, was wired so far from accepted norms that ideas such as those transmitted therein would be considered as anything even close to acceptable.  I was surprised, that is, until I saw who had sent the message.  It came from me.

were Cheeto's involved?

[Twolanerider]

were Cheeto's involved?

The puffy kind.  Not the crunchy ones.  There was also a Wizard.

[J-Carr]

The puffy kind.  Not the crunchy ones.  There was also a Wizard.

Umm.  I'm not sure how to type that Tim the Toolman confused R sound that he used to make when completely and uterly confused.  Now seems as good a time as any however to try...

Arrrr?!?!?

 

Ride Safe,
JC

[Twolanerider]

Umm.  I'm not sure how to type that Tim the Toolman confused R sound that he used to make when completely and uterly confused.  Now seems as good a time as any however to try...

Arrrr?!?!?

 

Ride Safe,
JC

Pardon me but; whut?  What have you been imbibing that would lead you to even consider as a possibility that there was sense to be made of this?  A Cheeto Wizard?  Really.... 

[J-Carr]

Pardon me but; whut?  What have you been imbibing that would lead you to even consider as a possibility that there was sense to be made of this?  A Cheeto Wizard?  Really.... 

 
Well, generally your confused ramblings have an undertone, a subliminal point, that if considered long enough lead one to detect a certain sarcastic bent that indicates you think someon eor something is full of chit.  In this case I just thought you'd decided it would be fun to ssee if the pain meds are still as strong now as they were five months ago.  It appears that they are. 

Ride Safe,
JC

[Miker]

I am full of chit....

[iski]

Metamucil?

[Miker]

since my previous post, I am no longer full of chit...maybe colonic chit remnants...but by 1400 hours they too will prolly get gone thus starting the process all over again...

[Twolanerider]

Well, generally your confused ramblings have an undertone, a subliminal point, that if considered long enough lead one to detect a certain sarcastic bent that indicates you think someon eor something is full of chit.  In this case I just thought you'd decided it would be fun to ssee if the pain meds are still as strong now as they were five months ago.  It appears that they are. 

Ride Safe,
JC

Or; there was a beer bet between members on whether not the completely noncontextual Wizard reference would be something you couldn't keep from responding to....

I love sure things .

[J-Carr]

Or; there was a beer bet between members on whether not the completely noncontextual Wizard reference would be something you couldn't keep from responding to....

I love sure things .

Bastard!       

BTW.  Put me down for 20 the next time.  On me not being able to keep away from it.  I'm good for it.

Ride Safe,
JC

[Luca Brasi]

How the hell did I miss this thread ?  Man if any one thread best defines this website, it's this one. It goes from the sublime (Candy's very excellent technical exlanation) to the ridiculous Twolane's insane joke about PM'ing himself. I guess I need to pay more attention. I've been laughing for 10 minutes over this

B B