$SectionName = "Personal_Messages";

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$SectionSub1 = "Personal_Messaging";
$SectionBody1 = qq~YaBB is about community and communication. And there are plenty of ways to communicate: Posting on the boards, Personal Messaging, E-mail, ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN, and Gtalk. Of course, all methods of communication are only available to members. An exception is when the Forum Staff decides to allow guests to post on the boards: in this case all unregistered users are NOT allowed to do is viewing the Member List and sending Personal Messages to members.

<p>As a new functionality, we now offer the possibility for guests to send a PM to the admin of the forum. If there is a problem with your account or with the registration, then use this to contact the forum owner.</p>

<p>Another brand new thing is that you can send messages much more like emails. You can send carbon copies (cc) and blind carbon copies (bcc) and the receivers can also respond directly to other original recipients.</p>

<p>You have the possibility (if enabled) to create additional store folders for your messages and if the number of messages is large, you can find individual messages by using the search.</p>

<p>Forum staff have the possibility to communicate to each other by sending broadcast messages. You can select the recipients to be all moderators, all moderator groups, all global moderators, all admins or all of those together.</p>

<p>While e-mail is a good way to correspond privately with members, it has several drawbacks: You must open your e-mail application to write and send the message; the recipient must open his/her e-mail application; check his/her mail and your message will mixed in with all the other mail and it can take sometimes several minutes to an hour for mail to reach the recipient.</p>

<p>As an alternative to e-mail, YaBB offers a faster, more private method. Personal Messaging on the forum provides instantaneous delivery to the recipient's private mailbox. The mail is sent and received entirely through YaBB, so neither you nor the recipient have to open another program or leave YaBB. Personal Messaging also gives both the sender and recipient greater privacy: no one's real e-mail address is revealed. Personal Messages show only the username and name of both parties.</p>

<p>If a recipient isn't online, Personal Messages wait in the member's PM box until the next time he/she logs in and manually reads and/or deletes them. Should you for some reason need to call back the message before the other party reads it, you can.<br />
YaBB Personal Messages is basically a self-contained, highly private e-mail system.</p>~;
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