diff --git a/message/lib.php b/message/lib.php
index b83324dfcd6..1df88f81650 100644
--- a/message/lib.php
+++ b/message/lib.php
@@ -477,7 +477,8 @@ function message_print_search_results($frm) {
                 echo '</td>';
                 echo '<td class="message_summary">'.message_get_fragment($message->message, $keywords);
                 echo '<br /><div class="message_summary_link">';
-                message_history_link($message->useridto, $message->useridfrom, true, $keywordstring, $datestring, $strcontext);
+                message_history_link($message->useridto, $message->useridfrom, false, 
+                                     $keywordstring, $datestring, $strcontext);
                 echo '</div>';
                 echo '</td>';
                 echo '<td class="message_date">'.userdate($message->timecreated, $dateformat).'</td>';
diff --git a/message/user.php b/message/user.php
index ceca4030a1c..13e0cb490e9 100644
--- a/message/user.php
+++ b/message/user.php
@@ -76,11 +76,10 @@
             echo '<br /><font size="1">';     /// Print login status of this user
             if ($user->lastaccess) {
                 if (time() - $user->lastaccess > $CFG->message_offline_time) {
-                    echo get_string('offline', 'message').":";
+                    echo get_string('offline', 'message').': '.format_time(time() - $user->lastaccess);
                 } else {
-                    echo get_string("lastaccess").":";
+                    echo get_string('lastaccess').': '.get_string('ago', 'message', format_time(time() - $user->lastaccess));
                 }
-                echo get_string('ago', 'message', format_time(time() - $user->lastaccess));
             } else {
                 echo get_string("lastaccess").":". get_string("never");
             }