There are two kinds of messages here on the new Jag-lovers platform: Public, and Private.
Private messages:
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Are NOT visible to the public.
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A Private message will ALWAYS be identified by the envelope symbol at the beginning of the title:
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Notification of a new Private message will always appear as a small coloured symbol, above and to the left of your user symbol, as in this screenshot:
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To read a Private message you must first expand your user symbol by clicking on it, revealing this:
- A Private message is indicated by an envelope symbol,either:
or
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In this example you can see that I have sent a Private message from my moderator account to my test account, with the subject “Test of PRIVATE Messaging”:
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If I now click on the example above, the private message will open and appear as:
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Note please that there is an envelope symbol displayed to the left of the Subject:
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Below the subject line we have, from left to right, the sender symbol, name, and the age of the message:
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Then we have the text of the message itself:
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Below that we have a typical toolbar, then a summary of the message:
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Below that we have buttons to archive or reply to the private message:
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If you click on the “Reply” button a composer window will appear, in which you can compose and send a private reply. That window looks like this:
If you are using the Jag-lovers site to forward messages to your personal email, then the subject lint for the message in this example would be: [Jag-lovers Forums] [PM] Test of PRIVATE Messaging.
So please remember, if you see a message and aren’t sure if it is public or private: