Generally, once a PM has been sent, it's out of the hands of the sender - like an email.

But if the recipient has PM notifications being sent to them via email, recalling the PM doesn't recall it from their email client. (Been caught that way.)

I'm wondering if we need a 'catcher' that will turn off the PM recall if the single recipient has email PM notifications turned on.  Something to think about.

I know from experience that trying to recall a PM that's gone to email just confuses (and annoys) the recipient.

Dandello wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 2:38pm:

If that can be done, that would be pretty cool.

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Dandello wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 2:38pm:

I don't think that's ever occurred to me, so thanks for bringing it up. I've recalled PMs before, but thanks to your note about how a recall actually works, I won't do that again. Instead, if need be, I'll simply send a follow-up PM.

I began to wonder why a PM can be recalled, and yet, it can't be edited it afterward. But then, editing a PM after it's been sent to a recipient's email client could be even more confusing, and potentially more irritating, so I guess it's good that editing can't be done.

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On a related note regarding spam that get posted in a forum, and then gets subsequently deleted or moved to a staff-only area by an admin or moderator, with a new topic the following message takes its place (with a respective identifier):

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If the spam post is added to an existing topic as a reply, instead of a System Information message, the clickable link in YaBB's Board Notification takes you to the associated topic minus that moved or deleted spam post.

I think the way YaBB does this is fine. The only complaint I have about it is that the Board Notification that appears makes it seem as if you are the only one who can't access the information that is being accessed.

But this isn't really an issue since we admins can change that Board Notification to a notice of our choice. I haven't actually done this in our forum yet, but I may soon change that notice to read as follows:

"The information you are trying to access may have been spam, and removed by a moderator, or it may have been deleted by its author. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please enjoy the rest of our forum, and thank you for participating."

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Or as follows, maybe a shorter, and simpler notice would be better:

"Sorry, but the information you are trying to access is no longer available."

Just thinking aloud again.

xnoddyx wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 4:16pm:

I understand; no rush.

You and the others working with Dandello are doing a really great job to improve what's already a terrific forum software.

greydane wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 4:45pm:

Good idea.

Did some checking - when a PM recipient has PM email notifications turned on, the Call Back link isn't supposed to appear at all. (This is true in 2.4 and 2.5+. This the leaves the mystery as to why some of my members got email notifications of PMs and I still had a Call Back link to call back the message (this was in 2.5AE).  

This situation led to much confusion at the time.

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