Purpose of the Outbox

slimjim · Posted: Wed May 02, 2018 5:25 am Post subject: Purpose of the Outbox

Dallan, I didn't realize that my Sent folder reached a 100%. There were two notes in the Outbox to English Mike and henrystraker. I assume they were ones that didn't get sent. I wasn't able to resend them from the Outbox like with MS Outlook. So I recreated them and submitted. However, now the last two showed up on the Sent folder and the Outbox.

Can you help me understand this behavior or what I might have done incorrectly?

Or as Vince just pondered, why?

Thanks in advanced, Dallan!

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

The outbox is where messages sit until they get "read". Once "read" they should get moved to "sent". So if you have a ton of messages sitting there in your outbox, thats due to people not reading them.

I upped all the limits from 100 to 1000. That might be a mistake though... it can let your boxes grow to unmanagable sizes lol!

-DallanC

slimjim · Posted: Wed May 02, 2018 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: Purpose of the Outbox

Thanks, Dallan. I didn't realize that it meant that they message hadn't been read/viewed if still in the outbox.

slimjim · Posted: Wed May 02, 2018 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: Purpose of the Outbox

Wait, if your sent folder is full, does the next composed message just sit in the outbox or, if sent is full, you are not allowed to create anymore messages?

slimjim · Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 2:58 am Post subject: Re: Purpose of the Outbox

DallanC wrote:

I upped all the limits from 100 to 1000.

Makes my last question OBE. Thanks, for upgrading us Dallan.