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Offline Rotary-Motion

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modify sent pm
« on: March 29, 2013, 07:42:10 PM »
to the powers that be why cant i modify / edit a sent email?

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2013, 08:26:26 PM »
Once you've sent it, it's gone, off to another server where it is outside your control.

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2013, 07:58:38 AM »
bummer as i sent an email with alot of info in it ie: picture links with tags that i needed to copy paste without going the long way round, which i did, but ok...

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2013, 08:56:16 AM »
Most email clients/webmail systems will save a copy in a 'sent' folder.

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2013, 06:31:36 PM »
Most email clients/webmail systems will save a copy in a 'sent' folder.

i can look at it as itsd saved, just cant open it say in edit to copy paste all the html tags and text ect in one go...

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2013, 03:45:23 AM »
i can look at it as itsd saved, just cant open it say in edit to copy paste all the html tags and text ect in one go...

can you click reply/forward/quote or something like that ?

that should give you the original message to work with ;)

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2013, 06:37:42 AM »
If you select and copy the content, the html and tags should come with it - even if they are displayed as tags and not the code.

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2013, 08:07:14 AM »
i can look at it as itsd saved, just cant open it say in edit to copy paste all the html tags and text ect in one go...

can you click reply/forward/quote or something like that ?

that should give you the original message to work with ;)

i can quote my own message yay!

just need to remove quote tags

thx nighty you de man, i dont know these admins / owners of the site know nothing ah  ;D

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2013, 03:03:54 PM »
well I'm not just a pretty face you know.....










I've got a nice arse too ;)

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2013, 06:51:22 PM »
[quote  i dont know these admins / owners of the site know nothing ah  ;D
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We know where the "banned" button is tho ;D

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Re: modify sent pm
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2013, 07:38:29 PM »
yes paddy lol

i donated

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