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being able to cancel your PM before it gets sent out would be very useful and cut down on mistakenly sending a PM to the wrong person. I had 2 mods within the past week hit the 'reply all' button and send a PM to everyone on the PM chain when not everyone should of seen their replies.

gmail offers this, for example, by allowing you to adjust your own personal settings as to how long it'll queue up an email before sending it off, thus giving you that amount of time to cancel the email.

I think mybb should do something similar. add a setting in the user cp to allow a user to adjust how long it'll queue up a PM before sending it off. during the time the PM is sitting in the queue, you should be able to rescind the PM.

permissions as to who can use this functionality should be configured in the admin cp.

+1
As addendum to this, phpBB has nice option to see which PMs are only delivered and which are delivered and opened by recipient.

It will be nice that MyBB 2.0 has the same.

MyBB already has both features? Or am I missing something? http://community.mybb.com/private.php?action=tracking

(2015-12-15, 10:42 AM)StefanT Wrote: [ -> ]MyBB already has both features? Or am I missing something? http://community.mybb.com/private.php?action=tracking

are you referring to my post or the one after mine?

I hate to be that guy...but do we really need this? It can be solved by reading before you press send; an important life lesson to learn. But if you really wanted to do this you could do it through jQuery pretty easily. Just have the form submission delayed for X amount of time

(2015-12-16, 03:43 AM)Jason L. Wrote: [ -> ]I hate to be that guy...but do we really need this? It can be solved by reading before you press send; an important life lesson to learn. But if you really wanted to do this you could do it through jQuery pretty easily. Just have the form submission delayed for X amount of time

I thought so too until 2 different mods on my forum replied to everyone on a PM chain by mistake...

as a quick fix, we just removed the reply all functionality on my forum for now.

if you go to the page referred by Stefan, you have the option to cancel the PM and also to check if  a PM is read by the member..

(2015-12-16, 02:00 AM)andrewjs18 Wrote: [ -> ]are you referring to my post or the one after mine?

Both. Although the existing feature is not as user friendly as GMail it does exactly what you are suggesting.

IMO the issue that needs to be resolved here is not being able to cancel PMs, but to have an interface that more clearly communicates what's going to happen and who the recipients are. Easy to gloss over and differences between Reply and Reply All could be more defined.