I get a notice when I first log on that I have a PM....

Yeah, was thinking the same.

Edited the post.

Me too - I edited the post to better explain.

Do you mean when someone pms you it turns up in your email?

Sort of. I don't necessarily want the actual PM to show up the way a comment does, but an alert to let me know that it's there at all would be nice. I edited the post to further explain but sometimes I don't log in for days at a time so I have no way of knowing a PM is sitting here, since I reply to comments from my email box a lot of times.

There are Personal Messages on this system? I had no idea. Doesn't seem to be in the site map -- link anyone?

Go under "View" and there is a "Private Messages" option. :) I'll PM you so you can see what it's like when someone does so - usually you're just notified upon logging in.

Argh, I'm using Lynx and simply cannot find that menu, even on the login page. URL?

http://www.insanejournal.com/privatemessages.bml

If you log out and back in, it will alert you and tell you to click a certain box to take you to your inbox, also. At least it should...

The URL worked fine.

Lynx simply does not have that info in the login screen:

...which would be another great reason to have email notifications :)

I got a PM notification the first week i was here. :-?

via email.

And then they just stopped? Or...?

I don't know. I'm perm. I haven't gotten any but one. Send me now, and I'll tell you.

okay give me one sec and i will.

I didn't get a notice, but I also had my PMbox open at the time and a dialog box opeedn to notify me that I had a new message....so. :-\

But you didn't get an email? I think it should/would send an email anyway?

I'll wait. If I recall, it was delayed and not instantaneous. I'll let you know.

I got a dialog box again to notify me of the message.

No email as of yet. I'll let you know if anything different happens.

Thank you!