| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 5/20/2007 1:30:03 PM | I'm still experiencing the problem, but only on about 50% of my first contact attempts. I've resulted to using my "favorites" list as an "I'm interested" list, but it's not like many peple check to see on whose lists they show up.
As to distance, there are databases that include the longitude and latitude for U.S. zip codes (where the coordinates are usually centered on the zip code's area). With those coordinates, distance can be computed - and that's probably how it's done here. | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 5/20/2007 3:11:47 PM | Hey all,
I have had the "Sent Message" untruth before myself. The suggestions that are given do not always work.
On top of that I cannot keep anyone in my favorites. It empties when I log out.
No one can keep me on their favorites list either.
Messages that are sent to me by women do not make it most of the time (the problem has worsened over the past few months).
Also, my mail settings and some of my profile specifics seem to change "on their own". At first I thought that i was doing something wrong, but I have realized it is problems with the site.
I have tried changing passwords from my home computer as well as others, pouring over these forums for some sort of answer and finally emailing tech support (3 times-no answer). It has become such a huge issue that I have addressed it in my profile so that women do not get irked with me "not responding to an email that they sent me" (it has happened).
I really like this site as well, but I am pretty much at my wits end. It has become almost unusable.
As far as I can tell, what actually appears in SENT MESSAGES does make it and my VIEWED ME list seems okay. Other than that there are serious issues....
Good luck to you all. | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 5/29/2007 11:44:16 PM | I've had this same problem as a lot of other people have and it is very frustrating. I send messages, it says "message sent" but does not show up on the sent list. It has nothing to do with restrictions by the other user and these are not long or obscene messages either. I've even sent a message, saw that it wasn't on the sent list, then im'd the person to see if they got it or not, and they didn't get it.
This happens to at least 75 percent of my first contact messages. This has been a problem for a couple of months now, and i'm to the point where I can't contact anyone, I can only favorite them and hope they see that.
Plentyoffish, you have got to fix this problem before it drives people away. I appreciate the site, but this is a big enough problem that needs to be looked into. It's just as bad as the the IM problem last year.
If someone can figure this out, please let me know | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/2/2007 4:26:36 PM | Not sure if this helps, but the filter on the emails is EXTREMELY sensitive. I sent an email with the name "Dickson" in it, and that prevented the email from being sent out. So go over the email with a fine toothed comb and see if you can find the word that it's picking out. | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/2/2007 9:55:19 PM | Just how large is your First Contact email? Much over 600 characters (around 8 lines), will not go through (but will be shown as "sent", with nothing in your sent folder).
For a First Contact message, the filters might well consider it too harsh and derogatory a word to let slip by. I suppose you could think of it being likely 'banned' for First Contact emails, and that's pretty much what I'm telling you is likely.
Nonsense !!!
When are the POF folks going to admit they have an un-fixable bug & re do it ?! No wonder it's free as not all of the functions here work
Please help, not only me, but all the folks here are & have been experiencing the same exercise in futility.
It seems that since so many have this issue, & from what I have read, nothing seems to be helping, therefore, why not gather around for the new structure of this site & remove that bug once & for all
 | Its an enhanced Filter blocking Users who message People with 'Intimate Encounters' excessively and then try and message Women who don't want anything to do with that. |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/4/2007 8:53:21 AM | Anyone else notice its 99% all MEN complaining they cant get emails to go through.
Why do I suspect its just the filter picking up on censored dirty words?
Makes me wonder what these "first contact" emails actually say. | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/4/2007 9:32:07 AM | Well I'm a female, all woman I might say and over the past few days I have had an awful time with this problem for the first time! After about 6 tries to one fellow, I sent a one sentence email telling him I was trying to send him an email AND IT WENT THRU!!! Then I cut and pasted my intended email and it went thru.
I simply think that this is just a fluke, no rhyme, no reason!!!! Irritating but I guess we have to live with it.
Just wanted to make sure you knew this is NOT a gender issue  oh and I don't message I.E.s Sometimes I look just to see what the big deal is BUT otherwise I won't touch an I.E. even if it appears harmless. | |
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| SENT message folder?
Posted: 6/7/2007 3:04:01 AM | I must be blind ... I can not find a SENT MESSAGES place at all! Where is the Link? I have an IN box but I do not seem to have an OUT box???
Please help the poor blind lady! | |
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Posted: 6/7/2007 3:05:50 AM | I can not find a SENT MESSAGES place at all! Where is the Link?
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/16/2007 10:55:16 AM | "That User has other Contact Restrictions per their Mail Settings"
The only restrictions (that don't appear at the bottom of a person's profile) in the Mail Settings that I can determine may be causing messages to not be sent is 'message length' (ie. 50+ characters, 100+, etc.) If this is the case, instead of 'Message Sent' it would be more to the point - not to mention less annoying - to indicate 'Message Not Long Enough' or something to that effect. We're all very busy!
Furthermore, as a professional broadcaster in the television industry, I take strong exception to your claim that this site is 100% free. It's no more free than off-the-air TV or Radio. Where's the cost? Exposure to advertising. Which many find offensive - making the cost high! So it reduces to No pay/No play (ie. if one wishes not to be exposed to advertising, don't join the site). I make no claim that this is not mentioned in TOS (I don't have the time to check right now). | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/16/2007 11:02:35 AM | to indicate 'Message Not Long Enough' or something to that effect.
It does when you try to fire off an E-Mail.
If you don't get that Message, then its another Restriction that is blocking you.
See MSG: 11 on Page 1 of this Thread
It's no more free than off-the-air TV or Radio.
Free, as in you are not being asked for any Money to use this Site.
If you want to put a Price on viewing Advertising, so be it, but you're gonna have a tough Time coming up with a Dollar Figure.
Proceeds from Advertising pay for the Waterpumps and Fanbelts that drive this Site ...
(ie. if one wishes not to be exposed to advertising, don't join the site)
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/19/2007 5:56:51 PM | So after many months of this problem no one at POF has taken the inititive to find out and correct the problem. These Emails I send have nothing even hinting towards anything wrong . Normally complimentary and pleasant . I have sent 20 line emails and 2 line emails , none of which get through . Then I send 2 in a row that are comparable and they go.
I guess maybe free is not insentive enough to resolve problems and it is easier to pass the blame to all men | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/20/2007 3:18:02 PM | So after many months of this problem no one at POF has taken the inititive to find out and correct the problem.
| More likely not taken the Inititiative to thoroughly read this Thread and apply the Data contained herein. |
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| Sent messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/21/2007 12:22:16 PM | | i tried sending that same test message to a first contact with the same dismal results as an actual email. What gives with this and when do you plan to address this as a customer service issue (ie. ease of use/explanation)? Let's not forget whose 'EYEBALLS' POF directs paid advertising at, as well as, poor or shoddy service (in customer's eyes) can seriously undermine any business model! | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/22/2007 2:57:10 PM | | Everything I have read I have tried, The problem I am having will not go away. Ok for sure, I wont know if someone has blocked me,,but a new user who I have had no contact with before is unlikely to have done that. So why cant I message some people. Its beginning to get on my nerevs now. | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/22/2007 3:08:43 PM | For "first-contact" there are many filters (as is covered in this and other threads), every once in a while somebody who "can't send email" sends me the "greeking"/"lorem ipsum" text that I posted in this thread, no triggers, always gets through.
Unfortunately, idiots harassing people have made these first-contact" filters a necessity. | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 6/25/2007 5:09:10 PM | I've tried sending a few emails in the past few minutes and keep getting kicked back to a login screen. I am logged in. I've tried sending emails to three different people with the same result. Only one of them was a first contact email.
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and thank you :) | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 7/1/2007 10:24:11 AM | Regardless of the restriction that's actually blocking the message, the site should still not be reporting "message sent" when it is not. I'm still experiencing that on about 50% of my first contact attempts, and it is damn annoying. None of us should have to click on your "sent messages" link to verify if a "sent" message was actually sent.
Restrictions that show at the bottom of a user's profile prevent a message from being composed in the first place. They are obviously not the problem. Length and content restrictions can only be checked after message submission - they MUST be the problem.
I really don't like being lied to. | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 7/1/2007 10:45:00 AM | Regardless of the restriction that's actually blocking the message, the site should still not be reporting "message sent" when it is not.
This being a free site, it's prone to spammers all the time, and seeing as the site cannot differentiate between a true spammer or someone who hasn't figured out what terms or phrases not to use in a first contact email, we'd rather err on the side of caution and lull the spammer into a false sense of security till he's nabbed for good.
I'm still experiencing that on about 50% of my first contact attempts, and it is damn annoying. None of us should have to click on your "sent messages" link to verify if a "sent" message was actually sent.
after nearly two years here and all the FAQ's one would hope that you've tailored your first contact messages to what's acceptable and not -no?
I really don't like being lied to.
lesser of two evils, spammed to death or simply checking your sent basket. I'm sure you check it regardless to see if they've read it - no?
and content restrictions can only be checked after message submission - they MUST be the problem.
let's say that I highly doubt it's message length as a 7500 character email may just put them in a coma, so we'll go with the message contents.
Carefully go through the above posts
Emails / Messages on POF
FAQ - Emails/Messages - Sent but not showing up in the sent message area
FAQ - First contact messages - won't send | |
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 7/1/2007 10:27:18 PM | None of us should have to click on your "sent messages" link to verify if a "sent" message was actually sent.
In part what that is for, any E-Mail Client.
I really don't like being lied to.
The coding for that is done by the Admin, and when and if he decides to do so, then you'll have your Message.
I'm still experiencing that on about 50% of my first contact attempts
There is nothing else here to go on other than what has already been posted:
E-Mail: Contact Restrictions
Forums: Censored Profanities
Forums: Censored Words
I included the 1984 picture because my nose was broken in a work-related accident in 1987 and has a different appearance now.
Remove the Numbers from your Profile: Profiles: Data Entry Requirements
Rabbitman49 Appears on 0 members favorites lists and has 1 roses that can be sent. Joined: 10/20/2005
You have been here since October 2005 and you have absolutely nobody who has added you to their Favourite List.
Maybe you are re-mailing People who have already E-Mail blocked you.
Just because I have a picture with a rabbit doesn't mean I'm gay or something.
As for why I'm haven't married (previously, or at all), I never found the right lady but found plenty of wrong ones.
I'm not concerned about age as long as your biological clock isn't in alarm mode.
some may say bordering on obnoxious
I'm not certain why things worked out as such, but it's a trend that I'm not likely to break
Never married but "been down the aisle" once - to "get rid of" my mother at her 2nd. However all too often, I got involved with a few women (not met online) who probably should have BEEN committed
You expect me to make ALL the decisions?
I would also suggest you head over to Profile Reviews.
Cute Bunny-Wabbit by the Way ...
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| Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
Posted: 7/11/2007 12:48:22 AM | With such detailed info quoted from my profile, I have to reply - even if otherwise it would be off topic.
1) So I can't cite dates/specific years in my profile?
2) I have no one favoriting me because while I was seeing someone whom I met through this site from May 2006 through to January 2007 (when she deleted her profile), I intentionally deleted myself from everyone else's favorites listings (except hers). No one has added me back since. (I'm not seeing her anymore - the disaster that she was.) That could be because my messages don't go through....
3) I have kept a record of whom I have contacted and who has replied. These are true first contacts, not recontacts of people I've dealt with over a year ago.
4) "Profile reviews" section: Been there, done that. Some thought it was well written (and better than their own). Obviously, you also don't get my humor (since 2 of my half-truth-jokes were among the parts of my profile you quoted).
- Regardless, any issue with my profile itself would be a reason why people don't respond to messages they do get, not to messages they DON'T.
One of the words I have a habit of using is "interest" - as in "I find you interesting" or "I am interested in you" or "We seem to have a common interest in ...." Are you going to tell me that the word is on the ban list - because the site has received spam from banks or something? If so, then the ban list is way too sensitive and paranoid. What then should we do about the profile section labelled "Interests?" Shouldn't that mean that EVERYONE's profile should be deleted for violating the rules? What am I saying: There's a point where something can be taken too far - and I think that this has been. (As a verb or participle/adjectival form, "interest", i.e. "interested" or "interesting," has nothing to do with banking. Only the noun has that among its meanings.)
One cannot attempt to mail someone who has blocked him/her - the mail sending form is not presented.
The next thing you'll tell me is that someone who is of Greek ancestry will get their profile deleted because of the meaning that "greek" has in the adult film and prostitution trades. With so many unwritten rules, is there anything that we can do right? | |
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