[Shaun]

This happens on Maloria, no matter if you go on the overworld or not! You can only seem to know if you have a pm if you have F7 open. Try playing with that open!

Goodluck trying to contact somebody playing Maloria. Chances are you won't be able to unless you know the server well enough to recognize level names in profiles and are able to find the person. Even then, with dungeons being huge and maze-like and being gmapped, you'll probably have no luck. It's quite frustrating, actually. How Maloria even maintains a playercount with such a fatal mistake perplexes me.