Postal divides the many mail features into smaller portions and may eventually use the module system (e.g. Prat). Currently, you can delete the folder for any module you do not wish to use. There isn't a bulkmail GUI finished yet but there is a better Speedmail functionality as described below.
Postal_Express:
Shift_Click to get item/money from mail.
Ctrl_Click to return item.
If the sendmail frame is open, alt-clicking an item will attach it. If there is a name in the To: field, it will send the item to that person. Used with Postal_DejaVu this means you have a gui-less mass-mail.
Postal_TradeBlock:
Blocks trades while mailframe is open
Postal_DejaVu:
Autofills the name of the last person you mailed. UPDATED: Also remembers the last 15 people you have mailed and allows you to scroll the list with the UP/DOWN arrows in the SendMail Name Editbox. Right now this data is not saved between sessions.
Postal_Wire:
If the subject field is empty, this autofills it if you add money to the mail.
Postal_Forward:
Adds a Forward button to mails. Done but not fully tested or hardened. This should only be tested by coders who can fix bugs right now.
Postal_OpenAll:
This adds an "Open All" button that tries to get money/items from all your mails and purge them. By default right now, it does not attempt to purge blank mails. This may seem slower than gmail1's Open All but its because its also much safer and wait for money/item events before proceeding to next message.
Postal_Select:
Adds checkboxes to the inbox and Open/Return Selected buttons.
Postal_Bulk:
This isn't committed to branch yet. The big holdup here is the gui. I really don't to add a tab to the game mailUI for many good reasons. Here is a screenshot proving this isn't vapor. I am trying to make it like BulkMail but with hard coded lua instead of acegui. Mind you, this gui is not finished yet at all. In the meantime, DejaVu+Express offers a nice solution for sending lots of mails.
Postal_BlackBook: new
This is a 20 person contact list popup window. It also lets you select a mail recipient from your friends list.
Nice. Still using Gmail atm. Unfortunately, my huge lack of knowledge in lua means I won't use it until it gets further developed, but I'm looking forward to it.
one option for bulk mail... remember the recipient and auto-send mail once the item is dropped (or alt-clicked) instead of maintaining a queue list, much the same way Fence auto posts auctions on alt click.
one option for bulk mail... remember the recipient and auto-send mail once the item is dropped (or alt-clicked) instead of maintaining a queue list, much the same way Fence auto posts auctions on alt click.
Hrm. Currenlty there is Alt-Click to Attach in Postal_Express. I suppose there could be a flag to change this to Alt-Click to Send. Or maybe another binding altogether.
Or maybe this could go in another module called Postal_AltSend.
one option for bulk mail... remember the recipient and auto-send mail once the item is dropped (or alt-clicked) instead of maintaining a queue list, much the same way Fence auto posts auctions on alt click.
Hrm. Currenlty there is Alt-Click to Attach in Postal_Express. I suppose there could be a flag to change this to Alt-Click to Send. Or maybe another binding altogether.
Or maybe this could go in another module called Postal_AltSend.
What do you guys think?
Expounding on my own idea, how about this behavior....
1. Postal_DejaVu already autofills the name with the guy you just mailed.
2. Postal_Express will alt-click to attach an item to a mail.
Solution:
I could just add a check and if the Name box contains a name, then Express could send a mail after attaching the item.
I think this would also tide people over until the BulkFrame is done.
one option for bulk mail... remember the recipient and auto-send mail once the item is dropped (or alt-clicked) instead of maintaining a queue list, much the same way Fence auto posts auctions on alt click.
Postal now does this. Its performed by the Postal_Express plugin. Now I no longer need to run bulkmail while I get my own bulkmail running.
gonna try this mod out,has some nice features i like and will explore them when the servers are up again,dropped ctmailmod for this one as i wanta eventualy only run ace2 mods
Also, I have a proposal for dealing with "contacts". Postal_DejaVu currently remembers who you last mailed and autofills it (which works wonders with the new Postal_Express which lets you alt-click your bags empty versus doing big batch send bulkmails).
Now pretend for a moment that DejaVu instead of saving it to a simple variable, inserts it in a table. Now pretend that when you uparrow/downarrow in the editbox, it scrolls through the names in the table.
Now pretend there is a Postal_Storage that if available will save this list and DejaVu will use it if available so that it is using persistent data instead of session data.
At this point, you can write your own module to display this in a window that pops up when you open the sendmail frame (a sidepanel to the mailwindow maybe like a contact list?), a dropdown box, or what have you.
tried contacting you on IRC, but you weren't there.
Is there any reason you're not using proper AceModules?
I can assist you in converting the whole thing to a nice AceModuleCore setup.
tried contacting you on IRC, but you weren't there.
Is there any reason you're not using proper AceModules?
I can assist you in converting the whole thing to a nice AceModuleCore setup.
-Ammo
Postal has been a big undertaking and I've been working hard on the functionality of each of the submods before converting them to module. This was one of my hesitations for moving it to trunk. Feel free to whack at the branch code.
tried contacting you on IRC, but you weren't there.
Is there any reason you're not using proper AceModules?
I can assist you in converting the whole thing to a nice AceModuleCore setup.
-Ammo
Postal has been a big undertaking and I've been working hard on the functionality of each of the submods before converting them to module. This was one of my hesitations for moving it to trunk. Feel free to whack at the branch code.
Postal_Express:
Shift_Click to get item/money from mail.
Ctrl_Click to return item.
If the sendmail frame is open, alt-clicking an item will attach it. If there is a name in the To: field, it will send the item to that person. Used with Postal_DejaVu this means you have a gui-less mass-mail.
Postal_TradeBlock:
Blocks trades while mailframe is open
Postal_DejaVu:
Autofills the name of the last person you mailed. UPDATED: Also remembers the last 15 people you have mailed and allows you to scroll the list with the UP/DOWN arrows in the SendMail Name Editbox. Right now this data is not saved between sessions.
Postal_Wire:
If the subject field is empty, this autofills it if you add money to the mail.
Postal_Forward:
Adds a Forward button to mails. Done but not fully tested or hardened. This should only be tested by coders who can fix bugs right now.
Postal_OpenAll:
This adds an "Open All" button that tries to get money/items from all your mails and purge them. By default right now, it does not attempt to purge blank mails. This may seem slower than gmail1's Open All but its because its also much safer and wait for money/item events before proceeding to next message.
Postal_Select:
Adds checkboxes to the inbox and Open/Return Selected buttons.
Postal_Bulk:
This isn't committed to branch yet. The big holdup here is the gui. I really don't to add a tab to the game mailUI for many good reasons. Here is a screenshot proving this isn't vapor. I am trying to make it like BulkMail but with hard coded lua instead of acegui. Mind you, this gui is not finished yet at all. In the meantime, DejaVu+Express offers a nice solution for sending lots of mails.
Postal_BlackBook: new
This is a 20 person contact list popup window. It also lets you select a mail recipient from your friends list.
Hrm. Currenlty there is Alt-Click to Attach in Postal_Express. I suppose there could be a flag to change this to Alt-Click to Send. Or maybe another binding altogether.
Or maybe this could go in another module called Postal_AltSend.
What do you guys think?
Expounding on my own idea, how about this behavior....
1. Postal_DejaVu already autofills the name with the guy you just mailed.
2. Postal_Express will alt-click to attach an item to a mail.
Solution:
I could just add a check and if the Name box contains a name, then Express could send a mail after attaching the item.
I think this would also tide people over until the BulkFrame is done.
Postal now does this. Its performed by the Postal_Express plugin. Now I no longer need to run bulkmail while I get my own bulkmail running.
Can I run postal with a german client too or does postal need explicit translation to run on a german client?
Greetings
Timo
Will switch to this one soon :)
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Now pretend for a moment that DejaVu instead of saving it to a simple variable, inserts it in a table. Now pretend that when you uparrow/downarrow in the editbox, it scrolls through the names in the table.
Now pretend there is a Postal_Storage that if available will save this list and DejaVu will use it if available so that it is using persistent data instead of session data.
At this point, you can write your own module to display this in a window that pops up when you open the sendmail frame (a sidepanel to the mailwindow maybe like a contact list?), a dropdown box, or what have you.
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That's what I'm interested in as well.
Still using GMail, but I wanna move over asap.