On other forums as well as on my e-mail accounts I am able to review sent messages. That would be a nice option to have as in some occasions I send a message then have to resend to someone else, i.e. tried to vouch for someone today through PM only to find out it has to be through e-mail. It would have saved me a little bit of time not having to retype what I had already typed. As well as sometimes the occasional FU that I can go back and be like, "that's not what I meant!" Sometimes replies aren't forwarded with the original message, which could lead to an answer of a question I don't remember making.
If it is needed to send the text of a PM by email to staff, as I believe you are suggesting, here is what I would do:
Highlite text in PM
Click Copy
Go to email
Click Paste
I am way too lazy and too inaccurate as a typist to do it manually.
Torito
I just re-read your post. If you meant that your sent PMs are not being retained, that can be changed in your user control panel.
Got it, under the "Settings & Options" tab, "Edit Options", than able to change the settings. Thank you Torito.