Thank you so much for this! For those members I was never able to PM, I never hit follow, only went to their profile and hit add as friend - maybe that is why it still didn't work for me...

Follow and Add Friend are the same but the other person has to accept the request before you can add them.

Ah, okay- that makes sense. :)

I had hit "add as friend" and immediately tried to PM them - no wonder it didn't work! lol

Just letting you know that I just sent a PM to someone I have never sent one to before and she replied.  Neither she nor I have put in a friend request to each other.  

Do you both have member to member email selected in your preferences? That allows anyone to send you a PM.

I have it selected, not sure about the person I sent the PM to.  Your previous post mentioned having to click the "follow" option and I've never done that with anyone, and I've never had an issue sending/receiving PMs.  

Tammy27 (DoubleMsMom) said:

I've never done that with anyone, and I've never had an issue sending/receiving PMs.

This works if one of you is choosing to NOT receive Member to Member email. You would request to Follow or Friend them (same things) and they would accept. Then it overrides the "Not Accepting Private Messages"

Gotcha!! Thanks!

You are welcome - it IS confusing!  

There is a new problem with PMs for some people, if anyone here has a Private Message conversation with another member that they cannot open nor delete can you let me know OR post here

https://forums.delphiforums.com/service/messages?msg=54440.43

Thank you!