Gyroscopic Investing

I received an email with a link to a new private message. When I click the link, I get a page stating that I am "not authorized" to view the message.

can you see the PM through your messages page when you are logged in ?

No. I can see the old ones, but it says I have zero new messages.

Email shows your subject line,


testing send me a pm in return

but when I click the link, I get

You are not authorised to read private messages that are on hold.

So somehow my PMs are on hold. Is that something that can be undone in settings?

there are a couple settings for pms in user control panel - board preferences - edit global settings ..

-Allow users to send you private messages:
Note that administrators and moderators will always be able to send you messages. --- Yes No


-the other is in notifications which seem to be on and working for you..

if you can, send a pm to me... i am curious to see if i get messages, we can try to figure out if its just you or if this is a global problem.

I just stumbled upon the cause of the issue. I sent you a pm and then went to the Control Panel.

While the envelope icon at the top right says no new messages, Control Panel, Private Messages tab, says

You have 2 private messages currently on hold because of full folder.
Release all on-hold messages… they will be re-sorted into the appropriate folder if enough space is made available.

I guess the software should have said "inbox full" in other places, like my inbox.
Funny that we have to go to settings to see that.
Now, I do see something in my inbox that says, "Folder is 172% full (86 out of 50 messages stored)" Now that's full.

Thanks for your efforts, l8.

dualstow,

I had to go through my PMs with a chainsaw last week. I am now at 82% capacity. It took awhile and you may find it tough to pick the ones to go. I lost some good info in the PMs. I will request the info again sooner or later.

I did suggest putting mailbox capacity at 100 (doubled). All in favor…?

your pm came through fine...
have you checked your settings yet? slow typing i guess you have

My outbox is at 182% capacity. Is that a problem? I rarely refer to the outbox, anyway. Good to reduce the outbox to make the system work better?

Thanks, guys.

Just archived a bunch of my precious PMs regarding emacs & linux with early cuyler, joe & jack jones.
Exporting to CSV looks weird so I did the old copy & paste to text files.
Now I can delete.

bedraggled: when I got capacity below 100%, I was able to "release" those unread messages so yes, 182% is a problem.

dualstow,

My outbox at 182% is a problem?

I was thrilled to merely have use of my inbox.

Gee whiz!

And how did we get Bing, Google and Yahoo under registered users?

They weren't listed on the old set up?

The more, the merrier, I guess.

Ok, I'm going to PM you. If you can read it -- not just the subject line but the whole message -- then it's not a problem.
If you cannot, then you need to get down to like 96% capacity to read future messages.

Or you could just PM everyone your email address.

Bing, Google and Yahoo have always been lurking / scraping here, they were listed as search bots on the old system and as users under this one...

Thanks, 182Start.

Do I have the capacity to store in archives in this system?

there is a manage Rules, folders & settings, option that lets you create a new folder (archives) i haven't experiment with it yet but it might meet the purpose.