# Show recipient in "sent" personal messages

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-in-sent-personal-messages/42441>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [12 Aprile 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-in-sent-personal-messages/42441 "2016-04-12T11:18:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![TechnoBear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/technobear/32/40546_2.png) [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)\
**Post date:** [12 Aprile 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-in-sent-personal-messages/42441/1 "2016-04-12T11:18:31Z")

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I really like the improvements to the PM system, except for sent messages, where we’re pretty much back to this issue:

> [@Show recipient/sender in PM list](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-sender-in-pm-list/15397):
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> In the Profile message list, there is nothing to indicate who the other party involved in the PM is. Nor is there any filter option, as there is in vBulletin, so as soon as you accumulate more than a few PMs, it becomes very difficult to sort out which is which and find a particular message. This seems to me to be the one place where showing an avatar would actually be really helpful - and it’s the one place where there are none.

At the moment, messages display my avatar (maybe unnecessarily; it’s my sent box, after all), but do not display the recipient unless they reply. Most messages I send are moderation messages, where the vast majority go unanswered. So my “sent” box has hundreds of messages with only my avatar, and no easy way to distinguish one from another.

Recipient should always be shown for sent messages, IMHO, regardless of replies.

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