Stuck in the Sent Items PM folder

[tiny-tim]

… stuck in the Sent Items PM folder

In User Control Panel > Private Messages > Sent Items, the button at the bottom of the page has no "Move to folder …" option, even though all the other folders do have it.

And there's no option to choose a folder when creating a new PM.

So all sent PMs are stuck in the Sent Items folder.

 

[Doc Al]

Interesting. I never noticed that before. Is this new, post-upgrade behavior?

 

[Moonbear]

I never try moving them anywhere other than deleting, so have never noticed this myself.

 

[Doc Al]

I never try moving them anywhere other than deleting, so have never noticed this myself.

Me neither.

 

[Astronuc]

I periodically save sent and received PMs as html and csv files, and individually, then deleted them.

I think they still count against a quota limit no matter where stored, but I could be wrong.

 

[tiny-tim]

So all sent PMs are stuck in the Sent Items folder.

oooh, I've just discovered that one can send private messages to oneself!

sooo … the way to avoid the Sent Items folder problem is to send a "blind copy" (click "BCC") to oneself …

that copy will appear in the Inbox folder, from where it can be moved to any other folder, and it has the correct recipient, time, etc

 

[berkeman]

So three years of experimenting finally paid off, eh?

 

[tiny-tim]

he he

no, three years of giving up , and finally wondering what the BCC link did!