General Chat

Does anyone know please what happens if you delete a sent message from your box that has not been opened?

I am wondering as like I expect many others have, I've got a number of messages I have sent to enquire about trees that are never opened. I assume because the owner has given up or indeed may have passed on.

I tend to leave them there "just in case" but if I delete them and at a later date somebody does contact me I may well have forgotten who I contacted and may wonder if the reply is genuine.

It's no big deal but as I say I wonder if deleting an unopened message clears it completly from the system or not.

Thank you for any help.

Mayfield.

Mayfield I could be wrong and someone will hopefully clarify this but you can still delete your messages and if there is any reply from them at a later date you can go back into your contact list and find all messages in there... :-)

A way to find out would be to send somebody a message that you know is actively on this site and tell them not to open it. Then try deleting the message and see what happens. ;-)

My understanding is that if you delete an individual message it is removed from your folder permanently, but not from the sender / recipients folder. A bit like an email, really.

However if you delete a contact then your messages with them are simply hidden from view, not deleted and will re-appear if you decide to re-establish contact at a future date.

Thank you all,
If I send you a message Graham, would you be kind enough to completly ignore me please? ;-)
If you can post that it has appeared on here I will delete it and we can see what happens :-D

Sure :-) Send it whenever you're ready

with bated breath we await the outcome..........??
Bob

To be continued.......................... ;-)

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Cue exciting music..........................................

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Okay. I have the message (unopened) :-)

Thanks Graham,

Message was

Hi Graham,
Thanks for your help,
Best wishes
Mayfield

Now deleted, how is it at your end :-D

It's still there. :-)

Ah!

So now we know ;-)

Thanks again for your help :-D

Mayfield

Your welcome :-)

Graham,

have you opened it?
or are you referring to the envelope?

Oh

I sent a message a while ago which I decided I didn't want to send.......so are you saying if we delete it, the recipient can still read it?

I think I deleted contact as well

I have since opened the message (after my previous post).
Yes Jax. That is what we were testing.

Ummmm hope this person never returns then :-D

Not sure why anyone might think they could delete messages from another members inbox once it had been sent.