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[Idea] Scripted dialogue Mail by Three6Mafia on 06-28-2006 at 07:05 AM
Just an idea, everyone wants to send emails from a script...
why not try a similar idea, yet being able to check inbox and subfolders, send emails etc. etc. i personally cannot code this but its an idea based on VOLV's idea of sending emails through his script.
Aaron.
RE: [Idea] Scripted dialogue Mail by Matti on 12-08-2010 at 06:11 PM
Why would you want to make an e-mail client inside Messenger? I think most people would prefer a stand-alone e-mail application on the desktop or on the web, instead of reading and sending e-mail inside Messenger.
On a more technical note, this would be very hard to do with Plus! scripting alone. Sending mails may be somewhat doable (1), but to receive and manage e-mails you'd need to build a complete storage system for it.
I think there's already a variety of e-mail clients available, adding another one would only cause more trouble when you use more than one. For example, how would you copy mails between the Messenger client and a different one? Outlook provides a bunch of export options, do you expect that the Messenger client can interpret all these as well?
In my opinion, it's too complex and totally not necessary. Why reinvent the wheel? 
(1) Sending mails using nothing but Plus! scripting is a pretty tough job, although there are alternatives. You could write a DLL to handle this, or use a remote server to send mails. This last method is how Volv's script works: the script sends a request to a remote PHP webserver which then uses its own SMTP server to send the message:
quote:
Since there's no need for any SMTP configurations on the client side, this makes the script easy to use. However, it's not practical when you want to make a serious e-mail client to be used daily, you need to send mails from the client side itself.
Originally posted by Volv »
The server-side script does nothing but redirect the received data to an SMTP server, unfortunately I can't provide you with anything other than my word but I promise that I do not log the emails being sent...
RE: [Idea] Scripted dialogue Mail by matty on 12-08-2010 at 08:46 PM
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Originally posted by Three6Mafia
28-06-2006 02:05 AM
quote:Really?!?
Originally posted by Matti
Today 01:11 PM
RE: [Idea] Scripted dialogue Mail by Matti on 12-08-2010 at 10:37 PM
God damnit, this thread got bumped up by a spam comment and I didn't check the date, thought this was a recent question... Spam comment got removed before I posted. Damn you, spam bots! 
Ah well, let's just let this thread die once again... 
Perhaps threads should be locked after x months of inactivity? Not only would this save us from the obvious spammers but it'd also stop people from (unwillingly) reviving threads. Just an idea though...