Difference between Sentbox and Outbox

[Walter Burns]

What's the difference between the Sentbox and the Outbox in private messages?

I have tried to send some private messages to Sbando today and see that they are not in the Sentbox but in the Outbox. Just wondering if they have been sent and if Sbando has received them.

[sbando]

I just logged in and your messages are there and I do have copies of my own messages saved in the Sentbox.

The Outbox is for drafts, I think.

Anyway, let's hear what our tech dept has to say about it.

[Walter Burns]

I don't think so. The messages I have sent to Sbando today have never been in the Sentbox. They were in de Outbox from the get go.
Besides, there are older messages in my Sentbox that I know have been read by the receiver.

[Frigo]

Sentbox contain messages that have not been read by the user u have sent it to. Once it has been read it goes into your outbox.

close, but it is the other way round. Outbox = not read by recipient!

[Walter Burns]

... I do have copies of my own messages saved in the Sentbox.

Does this mean you have written me back? If you did, I don't see any replies.

[Steve]

To be honest the Sentbox and the Outbox are really the same thing. Both being messages you have sent.

I always feel that the Outbox is my get out of jail free card. When I write a PM that is less than social, it gives me the chance to delete it before the person I am "whining" at reads it (so long as they are not online when I send it, then I usually get flamed).

The Sentbox is also the storage area of messages you have sent and have been received so that you can refer back.