Comeback message are only send when:
- (there is one of course)
- when the time limit, which you can set for the comeback message, hasn't been expired,
- when you have enabled the checkbox on top of the comeback dialog when you entered the message(!!!),
- when your contact comes online (thus wasn't online before),
- at the moment your contact comes online you are not offline,
- when Messenger Plus! can open a conversation window to that contact and give the focus to this opened window.
Thus, it will not send when your status is offline for example. Or when something is blocking the automatically openening of the chat window or putting the focus on that window.
The comeback messages are also not sent immediatly, it takes a few seconds before they will be send. This also means that if your contact immediatly goes back offline, the comeback message will never be sent.
The reason why it wouldn't work when you manually set your status to online is that the contact is already online. When a contact is already online a comeback message will not be sent. Comback messages are only triggered to send when the contact changes his status from offline to online.
PS: make sure you always have the latest Messenger Plus! version installed: current latest version is
3.62.146.
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