Sharing inventory items, does not work when you are not logged in,

[Rolig Loon]

This is not strictly true.  Under normal circumstances, you may receive up to 25 IMs, notecards, group messages, group invitations, and objects that you have bought or been given while you are not logged in.  After 25, your "in box" is capped and things do get lost.  That's the way SL is designed, and it's the way it has worked for many years.

Recently, there has been a well-documented bug that affects a small number of SL residents >>> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7540?   People who are affected by this bug find that the cap for their items is ZERO.  That is, they do not receive anything if they are not logged in.  That's probably what you are experiencing. That bug will be fixed in an upcoming version of the LL viewer.  Until then, however, there is a very simple workaround:

 

Maestro Linden added a comment - 13/Dec/11 1:48 PM

After more investigation, I have a guess about why this issue only affects certain avatars. One of my avatars had this issue, and had an empty Block List. As soon as I had the avatar block an object inworld (right click -> Block), I immediately received the queued offline IMs. This fix persisted between different sessions, even after I removed the object from my Block List (making it empty once again).

For those of you affected by this bug, could you try blocking/muting an object or avatar, and see if that fixes your problem? To block an object (or avatar), you can right click on them, then select Manage->Block from the context menu.

[Rolig Loon]

This is not strictly true.  Under normal circumstances, you may receive up to 25 IMs, notecards, group messages, group invitations, and objects that you have bought or been given while you are not logged in.  After 25, your "in box" is capped and things do get lost.  That's the way SL is designed, and it's the way it has worked for many years.

Recently, there has been a well-documented bug that affects a small number of SL residents >>> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7540?   People who are affected by this bug find that the cap for their items is ZERO.  That is, they do not receive anything if they are not logged in.  That's probably what you are experiencing. That bug will be fixed in an upcoming version of the LL viewer.  Until then, however, there is a very simple workaround:

 

Maestro Linden added a comment - 13/Dec/11 1:48 PM

After more investigation, I have a guess about why this issue only affects certain avatars. One of my avatars had this issue, and had an empty Block List. As soon as I had the avatar block an object inworld (right click -> Block), I immediately received the queued offline IMs. This fix persisted between different sessions, even after I removed the object from my Block List (making it empty once again).

For those of you affected by this bug, could you try blocking/muting an object or avatar, and see if that fixes your problem? To block an object (or avatar), you can right click on them, then select Manage->Block from the context menu.

[Lindal Kidd]

You will also fail to receive messages or items if you have Busy mode turned on.  Make sure this is not the case.