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 ds760
Joined: 1/22/2006
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FAQ: Sent emails not showing up in the sent box or receiving a System Message disallowing contact.Page 1 of 16    (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
I'm new to the site. I've sent a few messages out and when I try to send new ones they say message sent. I'll check my sent messages and they don;t show up there. Have they been sent then or is there a problem and there not sent?

Thx in advance for the help.
 Ticketoride
Joined: 6/3/2004
Msg: 2
Sent emails not showing up in the sent box or receiving a System Message disallowing contact.
Posted: 2/2/2006 1:59:17 AM

Question:

Why are my E-Mail Messages not showing up in the Sent Msg/Outbox Area?

Possible Answers:

  		• More than (4) Four duplicate E-Mails sent per Day.

  		• The Site's Contact Filter has blocked you from e-mailing anyone who
    has set their Mail Settings to block those who have previously messaged
    others for Sex or Intimate Encounters.

  		• The user has email blocked you.

  		• More than (40) Forty 'First Contact' E-Mails per Day.

  		• Do not enter any Telephone Numbers, or anything else that the Spam Filter may construe as a Telephone Number. Do not use more than 6 Numbers together such as Dates (1998-2003) even if separated by Spaces, Dashes, Periods, Parenthesis, Commas, etc.

  		• Do not use Banking Terms, such as "Account", "Bank", "Transfer", Profanities or sexual Terms, the Names of Hosting Sites, Names of certain blocked Countries such as Nigeria, India, Russia, or anything else that could reasonably be expected to catch the Eye of the Site's Spam/Scam Filters.

  		• Your E-Mail is too long, exceeding approx. 7,800 Characters

  		• Do not use the ---> @ Symbol, non-resolvable Character Encodings, Unicode, Chinese or anything else the System Filter does not recognize in your Message.

  		• You have not only composed and copied the Body of your ASCII (Plain Text) Message from your Text Editor into your E-Mail Message, but also your Text Editor's unrecognized, non-standard Formatting, Document Markup Languages or Control Characters. Use another Editor or don't use/turn off its formatting Functions.

  		• Do not send HTML Links, Java Code or E-Mail Addresses.

  		• Some Messages which contain any illegal Material or Activities such as "Drugs", "Rape", "Murder", etc. may be blocked.

  		• That User has other Contact Restrictions per their Mail Settings

  		• You have a Mail Settings Restriction such as | Dating | and have e-mailed another User with the very same Restriction, or other such Mail Setting Conflict. You cannot block that in your Mail Settings what is also indicated in the Looking For Field in your Edit Profile

  		• You, or the intended E-Mail Recipient, or both have a missing or incorrect
    Postal Code Profile Entry, esp. a "75 Mile" Contact Restriction Limit in
    either's Mail Settings.

  		• You inadvertently edited the Recipients To: Field instead of the Subject Line and fired your E-Mail/Reply off to a Non-Existent User/E-Mail Address, or to a User who had deleted his Profile.

  		• You have made Reply to an existing E-Mail in your Inbox, but changed
    the Recipient in the To: Field of a User who has his/her Profile hidden,
    and does not have you on his/her Favourites List. Since Mail Settings are hidden from View, Contact Restrictions can not be determined.

  		• The Mail Recipient has made certain fundamental Changes to his/her Profile such as Change of User Name or Mail Settings but has not yet E-Mail Logged out, reflecting the Update.

  		• That User E-Mail Blocked you subsequent to receipt of your Message, consequently your 'Sent Mail' disappeared from your Sent Msg/Outbox Folder. If that User then unblocked you, and you e-mailed again, the same Sequence could re-occur.

  		• Your Browser's Options/Preferences are incorrect, Securities set to high, Plentyoffish.com not set as a Trusted Site, Cookies corrupt, Firewall Blocks, etc.

  		• Another User has not E-Mail Logged out of their Plentyoffish Account from the same Computer using the same Browser, but you have E-Mail Logged into your Account sending E-Mails.

  		• Your Browser's User Agent is concealed, corrupt or indicates the Presence of Malware, Trojan or Viral Infection.

  		• A User's Profile was deleted, but not the actual User Account, resulting from massive Errors generated by a User trying to rig the Voting System utilizing automated Bots or other similar Types of Abuses.

  		• That User's Profile may have been deleted.

  		• There will also be unpublished filters put in place by the Admin for proprietary reasons, such as a high Percentage of E-Mail blocks or a high Contact-to-Complaint Ratio, etc. Unfortunately these are not disclosed in order to disuade circumvention..


    (Rev. January 13, 2009)
     ds760
    Joined: 1/22/2006
    Msg: 3
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    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 2/2/2006 9:48:04 PM
    Well I think I figured it out. If you sending an opening mesage to someone you can't cut and paste the same thing more then 3 or 4 times. I went in and changed the 4th message I sent put and it worked when prioviously it wouldn't. hope this helps some of us!
     ginger_ninja
    Joined: 1/12/2006
    Msg: 4
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 2/3/2006 5:05:34 PM
    bingo ds760. 4 duplicates would do it as ticketoride says above and in msg 4 of this link:

    http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts3198937.aspx
     smilingHot
    Joined: 3/27/2006
    Msg: 5
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 3/31/2006 10:44:37 AM
    I've been having the same problem.
    I finally had success by sending first a brief test email. That DID show up in the sent message list.
    I was then able to get my original message through.
    Note: In my main message, I did use the word for female dogs (actually meaning that!); the word was partially censored by *'s by the system.

    Boy, some programs are sensitive!
     mysterious5
    Joined: 4/4/2006
    Msg: 6
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 5/4/2006 5:50:37 PM
    same thing as message #5 has just happened to me twice. and nothing in message #8 applies. WTF?
     DelemasOld
    Joined: 12/5/2005
    Msg: 7
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 5/5/2006 7:42:40 PM
    This just happened to me too. The only thing which could possibly apply would be long messages, but it was just a page worth of text (61 lines.) It isn't silly enough to spit out a message because it contained the word Greenbank is it? The system claimed to send the message twice. It was a unique letter with an identical subject as a previous email. It never showed up in my sent mail. It would be really nice POF gave some indication if the message really wasn't sent. It would also be good to know what the length limits are. The system shouldn't accept a long email and just throw it out. Those take a lot of work 8o(...
     DelemasOld
    Joined: 12/5/2005
    Msg: 8
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 5/6/2006 11:38:20 PM
    I have no idea what kind of weird message content restrictions the system has but eventually I realized:
    1. If the message you just sent doesn't show up in Sent Msg, even if the system says "Message Sent" it wasn't really sent (Try sending the same message to yourself, you won't get it.)
    2. If a message doesn't show up in Sent Msg, and the reason isn't obvious, send it to yourself, each time trimming out paragraphs until you get something that will send. Once you have something the system is happy with send it to your contact.
     brawnydog
    Joined: 8/17/2005
    Msg: 9
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 5/7/2006 5:56:04 AM

    It isn't silly enough to spit out a message because it contained the word Greenbank is it?

    The filters will block anything related to "bank" to hinder scammers.
     !somewhere
    Joined: 1/16/2006
    Msg: 10
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 10/13/2006 3:33:41 PM
    I tried sending 2 messages just now

    Both said "message sent". Neither shows up in my sent message box.

    The 1st was a reply, to a person who just messaged me. There is no indicator beside this message in my inbox that I've replied to it.

    The other I'd contacted by clicking onm her profile. It said "message sent" but doesn't show up in my sent messages. This is not a new contact to me. Has no restrictions replying to me, and wouldn't have blocked me.
     Ticketoride
    Joined: 6/3/2004
    Msg: 11
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 10/13/2006 10:43:44 PM
    E-Mail Messages not showing up in the Sent Msg/Outbox Area?


  		• More than (4) Four Duplicate E-Mails sent per Day.

  		• More than (40) Forty new Contacts e-mailed per Day.

  		• Your E-Mail is too long, exceeding approx. 7,800 Characters

  		• Do not use the ---> @ Symbol, non-resolvable Character Encodings, Unicode, Chinese or anything else the System Filter does not recognize in your Message.

  		• You have not only composed and copied the Body of your ASCII (Plain Text) Message from your Text Editor into your E-Mail Message, but also your Text Editor's unrecognized, non-standard Formatting, Document Markup Languages or Control Characters. Use another Editor or don't use/turn off its formatting Functions.

  		• Do not send HTML Links, Java Code, E-Mail Addresses or Telephone Numbers, or anything else that the Spam Filter may construe as a Telephone Number.

  		• Do not use Banking Terms, such as "Account", "Bank", "Transfer", Profanities, the Names of Hosting Sites, Names of certain blocked Countries such as Nigeria, India, Russia, or anything else that could reasonably be expected to catch the Eye of the Site's Spam/Scam Filters.

  		• That User has other Contact Restrictions per their Mail Settings

  		• You, or the intended E-Mail Recipient, or both have a missing or incorrect
    Postal Code Profile Entry, esp. a "75 Mile" Contact Restriction Limit in
    either's Mail Settings.

  		• You inadvertently edited the Recipients To: Field instead of the Subject: Line and fired your E-Mail/Reply off to a Non-Existent User/E-Mail Address. (User/Execution Error.)

  		• You have made Reply to an existing E-Mail in your Inbox, but changed
    the Recipient in the To: Field of a User who has his/her Profile hidden,
    and does not have you on his/her Favourites List. Since Mail Settings are hidden from View, Contact Restrictions can not be determined.

  		• The Mail Recipient has made certain fundamental Changes to his/her Profile such as Change of User Name but has not yet E-Mail Logged out, reflecting the Update.

  		• The Site's Contact Filter has blocked you from e-mailing anyone who
    has set their Mail Settings to block those who have previously messaged
    others for Sex or Intimate Encounters.

  		• That User E-Mail Blocked you subsequent to receipt of your Message, consequently your 'Sent Mail' disappeared from your Sent Msg/Outbox Folder. If that User then unblocked you, and you e-mailed again, the same Sequence could re-occur.

  		• Your Browser's Options/Preferences are incorrect, Securities set to high, Cookies corrupt, Firewall Blocks, etc.

  		• Another User has not E-Mail Logged out of their Plentyoffish Account from the same Computer using the same Browser, but you have E-Mail Logged into your Account sending E-Mails.

  		• Your Browser's User Agent is concealed, corrupt or indicates the Presence of Malware, Trojan or Viral Infection.

  		• A User's Profile was deleted, but not the actual User Account, resulting from massive Errors generated by a User trying to rig the Voting System utilizing automated Bots or other similar Types of Abuses.

  		• That User's Profile may have been deleted.

  		• User/Execution Error.

  		• It is also possible there may yet be other Filters in Place the Admin never
    made mention of, such as a high Percentage of E-Mail blocks and
    Contact-to-Complaint Ratios, etc.

  		• If you feel this Site has a serious Glitch, click here to Investigate Now !!!


    (Rev. January 7, 2008)
     JACS01
    Joined: 11/15/2006
    Msg: 12
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 11/19/2006 12:11:47 PM
    I am having this very same difficulty! None of tickettoride's suggestions seem to be applicable here. I have sent messages to users that have none of the mail or contact restrictions that would apply to me, they are new messages, NOT cut and paste style, to previously uncontacted users, so, they wouldn't have blocked me either. Why DOES the system say "message sent" and NOT show up in the sent message folder? None of the answers here seem to be working for me. And that includes frequency of and length of attempted sent messages... please advise!
     Speranza
    Joined: 3/4/2006
    Msg: 13
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 11/26/2006 4:34:17 PM
    This has been driving me crazy! I'm beginning to think it's just Divine Intervention preventing me from contacting the wrong men.

    Or maybe the right ones... (Even the sad smiley just showed up as happy. Perhaps I should be on some other site? lol)

    Anyway, if it was because you're blocked or don't meet the criteria, surely you receive a message telling you? I just get a big MESSAGE SENT! message but no sign of what I sent shows up anywhere, so I assume it hasn't gone anywhere at all. I don't copy, or send lots of messages, or use the forbidden symbols (ooh, a bit Da Vinci Code innit?!) so I don't know.

    I'm trying not to take it personally.
     The SquareSpot
    Joined: 4/2/2005
    Msg: 14
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 11/29/2006 10:21:47 PM
    The issue seem to continue. I can not imagine that any of the criteria listed above for excluding messages applied to the messages I have sent. It would be very helpful if the filter displayed a warning about why a message got rejected.
     late™
    Joined: 1/9/2005
    Msg: 15
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 11/29/2006 10:48:38 PM
    Send the above text to me, just as it was entered.
     Speranza
    Joined: 3/4/2006
    Msg: 16
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 11/30/2006 11:07:25 AM
    I think the weirdest thing is when you get a triumphant MESSAGE SENT message over the top of a list of sent messages which patently doesn't include the one you just sent!

    Maybe it's all for the best...????? ;)
     Sasquatch2
    Joined: 7/19/2005
    Msg: 17
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/12/2006 8:54:36 PM
    I had one disappear from my sent folder today as well.

    It was actually in the sent folder this morning, unread.

    This afternoon, gone.

    Recipient had no contact restrictions and the profile was not hidden.

    Moot point because this evening they deleted their profile, but I'm curious.

    An 'unread' message IN my 'sent' literally disappeared.

    None of Ticket's points are applicable.

    Any ideas?
     jsthappy
    Joined: 12/12/2006
    Msg: 18
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/13/2006 1:32:13 PM
    Ok, so I spent too much time today sending emails that didn't go through.
    I've read the advice given here and would like to offer what just happened.
    I have tried to include my pic with the original emails.
    When I didn't include it, they all went through.
    I just have to see if I can now send it separately.
    Wish me luck!
    The pic is not offensive by the way.
     late™
    Joined: 1/9/2005
    Msg: 19
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/13/2006 2:44:40 PM
    Was the pic from the check-box menu at the bottom of the message window?

    Or an URL?
     Chapas
    Joined: 12/10/2006
    Msg: 20
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/13/2006 4:30:03 PM
    Hi mine wouldnt send due to me using the word for a mixed drink such as long island iced tea, guess the swear filter must have picked it up.
     Ticketoride
    Joined: 6/3/2004
    Msg: 21
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/16/2006 5:46:40 PM
    An 'unread' message IN my 'sent' literally disappeared.

    Beyond this point, the answer likely lies with the Admin or the Mail System.


     Marlowe_
    Joined: 12/5/2006
    Msg: 22
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/19/2006 5:08:36 AM
    I also have been having the problem of emails not showing up in the sent folder. NONE of the reasons listed in the above threads can provide an explanation as to why this is happening. I was able to send an email to myself... but none to any one else. At this point, I am quite certain that there is a problem with the POF system rather than any user error. Totally annoying...
     MangoLite
    Joined: 12/19/2006
    Msg: 23
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/19/2006 7:38:15 PM
    I can send a message to myself, but once i send to someone else, it does not go to the sent folder...

    I guess we are the beta testers for this website.
     MangoLite
    Joined: 12/19/2006
    Msg: 24
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/19/2006 8:22:16 PM
    Can the developer dude fix the sending functionality of this site?
    If you want i will help you, i do C#.Net/ASP coding for a living.
     keef24
    Joined: 2/27/2006
    Msg: 25
    Sending messages but not showing up in the sent message area
    Posted: 12/19/2006 11:06:04 PM
    the same thing sasquatch described happened to me as well. i sent a message, it appeared in my sent messages folder, where it remained unread for a while... then, next time i noticed it was simply gone. does this mean the message was never received? if the receipient deleted the message (whether before or after reading it) should it not still appear in my sent messages folder? does a moderator / anyone have an explanation... please? thanks and merry xmas!
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