Quote Originally Posted by bungiefanNA View Post
Staying logged in is the only way to send messages. You can always leave TeamViewer up on your system and remote control FFXI from that on a variety of devices. LogMeIn used to do it to, but they got rid of the free version.
I close the game so I can do other things on my computer without lag, (netflix, etc) keeping the game open isn't really an option at the moment, I'll just have to deal with missing shouts.