In Game Message System

[janusd]

I'm betting this system could also be used to create /tell queing like on Live for when a person was zoning. Sounds like what you're proposng Trev and what Derision and KLS are saying is happening with the code is similar to what happened on Live when you sent someone a tell while they were zoning. The system would just save the messages up and then they'd be displayed to you when you finished zoning.

[Derision]

After spending a couple of days looking at this and almost giving it up as 'too hard', I finally made a bit of progress:



All I have right now is a little 'mailserver' app which listens on the mailserver port specified in eqemu_config.xml and sends hardcoded responses to the client requests as a 'proof of concept', so plenty of work left to do to turn it into a working mail system.

[Derision]

Mail is in Rev247 for those that can compile.

I've started work on chat channels, as it uses the same opcodes as mail. I have the basics working (create, join, leave, and of course talk in a channel). Still need to implement the moderator stuff.

[Yeormom]

Thanks for the effort Derision!

[Richardo]

This is awesome!!! Hey Derision, previously we have relied on Doodman to for connectivity between EQEMU and IRC . Do you have any ideas so that we can work around this?

[WillowyLady]

Currently using 245, downloaded mail.sql and sourced into db.

Included following rules into peq/tables/rules_values


1 Mail:EnableMailSystem 1
1 Mail:ExpireTrash 0
1 Mail:ExpireRead 31536000
1 Mail:ExpireUnread 31536000

#

[Debug] [RULES__CHANGE] Set rule World:ExemptAccountLimitStatus to value -1
[Debug] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to find rule 'Mail:EnableMailSystem'
[Debug] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to interpret rule record for Mail:EnableMailSystem

[Debug] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to find rule 'Mail:ExpireTrash'
[Debug] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to interpret rule record for Mail:ExpireTrash
[Debug] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to find rule 'Mail:ExpireRead'
[Debug] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to interpret rule record for Mail:ExpireRead
[Debug] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to find rule 'Mail:ExpireUnread'
[Debug] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to interpret rule record for Mail:ExpireUnread
[Debug] [WORLD__INIT] Loaded default rule set 'default'

#

Everything else loads without errors, any ideas?

[Derision]

Mail was implemented in Revision 247, for which there are no Windows executables available for download yet.

And Richardo, I'll look into an IRC interface to chatserver. I don't know a lot about IRC, but I'll have a look at the RFCs and setup a private IRC server to play with.

One thing I am unsure about is authentication, i.e. you don't want a random person logging into a server chat channel from IRC and being able to spam it.