View email messages sent from Facebook Mail
There are a mainly two ways of sending email messages from your Facebook account: one is to create a message and send it from within your Facebook profile, inside a web browser of your choice; another way is to send messages from a third-party Facebook app (either on your computer or your iPhone or iPad) that lets you use the social network platform behind the scenes. In this tutorial, we will show you how to view messages sent from your Facebook account inside a browser. Aside from what we just mentioned, we'll go over the limited reliability of this feature (especially in the case where you want to check if anyone sent messages from your Facebook profile).
Check what messages were sent from your Facebook profile
Follow these steps to access the Sent Messages log on Facebook:
- First, login to your Facebook account, if needed; once you are inside your profile, click on the Messages tab on the left side of the screen:
If you do not see that tab, click on the Messages icon in the top left corner of the page, and click on any of the messages it contains (or the "See All Messages" link if it is displayed at the bottom of the dropdown menu).
- Facebook will then redirect you to your Messages inbox; you will notice that Messages is also selected on the left side of the page, now revealing a couple of sub-pages:
- The last sub-section under Messages reads "Sent": click on it.
- Within a second or so, Facebook will load all email messages that were sent from your Facebook account using a web browser (again, messages sent from a third-party application won't appear there), and be displayed just like they are in your inbox.
- To open or view a sent message, just click on it to open it, and Facebook will show between which two Facebook members the conversation occurred, when you sent that message, and will show its content as well - just like received messages in your inbox:
- And this is how you can view sent messages in Facebook!
Facebook Tip: as mentioned earlier, there are some limitations to the reliability of sent messages as a "proof" that a message was sent or not, since you can easily delete a sent message (you cannot unsend a Facebook message, but you can erase the confirmation that it was sent on your end, inside your profile). To delete a sent message from your Facebook profile, just click on the Delete button while the sent message is open, or select it from the sent messages listing (by ticking its checkbox), and click "Delete" from there.