# Show recipient in "sent" personal messages

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-in-sent-personal-messages/42441>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [April 12, 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:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-in-sent-personal-messages/42441/11 "2019-02-05T11:39:18Z")

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I bumped into this yesterday.

Over the past few weeks, as I’ve seen users post that haven’t updated their avatar or profile, I’ve been sending them a message to nudge them to do so, with a link to a pinned topic we have. It’s been effective. Most of the users have updated their profile, and our topic list page now has far more avatars than letters.

But now that it’s been a few weeks, when I see a new post by someone with a letter avatar, I have this anxiety as I’m about to message them, “hmm… did I already send this message to this person?”

I go to my sent messages, and there’s no easy way to tell. There’s a bunch of messages in the list with just my avatar.

I try searching my messages for messages with their `@username`, but that doesn’t work either.

My workaround now is to always include their name in my outgoing message, “Hey Julie, …” and then search my messages for “Julie”. But it’s significantly more effort.

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