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Works with 3.2

Author:	Xinhuan [more]
Version:	v3.2.2
Date:	10-10-2009 03:15 PM
Size:	63.00 Kb
Downloads:	63,591
Favorites:	1,575
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Postal

Postal offers enhanced mailbox support by providing the following features:

BlackBook: Adds a contact list next to the To: field.
- Tracks all your characters (as you log each one on) and list them if they are on the same realm/faction on a "Alts" list
- Tracks the last 10 players you mailed on a "Recently Mailed" list.
- Autocomplete names from Alts/Recently Mailed/Contacts/Friends/Guild list. You can choose which of these lists to use.
- Option to autofill in the last person mailed to the To: field.
- Option to disable Blizzard's name auto-completion popup.
DoNotWant: Shows a clickable visual icon as to whether a mail will be returned or deleted on expiry.
Express: Adds shortcuts
- Shift-Click to take item/money from mail
- Ctrl-Click to return mail
- Alt-Click to move an item from your inventory to the current outgoing mail (same as right click in default UI)
- Mousewheel to scroll the inbox
- Added option to disable multiple item mail tooltips.
OpenAll: Allows you to open all mails of selected types at one go in your inbox
- All AH Cancelled mail
- All AH Expired mail
- All AH Outbidded mail
- All AH Success mail
- All AH Won mail
- Non-AH mail with attachments
- Shift-Click on the OpenAll button will open all mail and override your filter settings.
- Choose to have a number of bag slots always left free when opening mail (You may need to slow down your opening speed option or leave more empty bag space due to server/client latency.)
Rake: Displays summary of money gained from opening mail
Select: Adds checkboxes to the inbox with buttons for selective opening/returning
- Added mail indicator numbers above the checkboxes.
- Added help note that you can Shift-Click 2 checkboxes to select everything between them.
- Added help note that you can Ctrl-Click a checkbox to select all mail from that sender.
- Choose to have a number of bag slots always left free when opening mail (You may need to slow down your opening speed option or leave more empty bag space due to server/client latency.)
TradeBlock: Block trades and guild charter signature invites from people while you are at the Inbox
Wire: Autoupdate the subject field with money amount if blank.

While this might not be too intuitive to some users, each character that you log on will have its own initial Postal profile (settings). If you wish that some or all your characters share the same profile (and hence share the same contact list), then you can create a New Profile, call it anything you want such as "Shared by Alts", and have all your other characters change to that profile.

Postal's menu and settings can be accessed at the upper right corner of your mailbox.

Please post bugs or suggestions at: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=3909

Change Log - Postal

Changes from v3.2.1 to v3.2.2

Fix the annoying error about editbox being nil caused by Postman's improper hooking.
Change the "Please delete some mail..." standard Blizzard message into a more useful one that:
- Shows you how MANY mails remain after the current 50.
- Tells you how long (in seconds) it is until you get to refresh for more.
Add a setting for "Keep free space", defaults to keeping 1 regular bagslot free in the Select and OpenAll modules. You may need to slow down your opening speed option or leave more empty bag space due to server/client latency.
Make our BlackBook autocomplete complete before Blizzard's reinstated one. Make the Friends/Guild list BlackBook options affect Blizzard's autocomplete instead in its popup menu (if it is enabled).
Add an option to turn on or off Postal's auto-complete (default on).

Changes from v3.2.0 to v3.2.1

Fix the occasional issue where auto-complete will not start working until at least 2 letters are typed.
Fix the Send button not enabling itself when typing in a name to send to after putting items into the mail first.

Changes from v3.1.2 to v3.2.0

Updated for patch 3.2!
TradeBlock module now also blocks guild charter signature invites while the mailbox is open.
New module: DoNotWant. Shows a clickable visual icon as to whether a mail will be returned or deleted on expiry. Allows fast deleting/returning of mail by clicking the icon (bye Lunar festival mail!). Standard popup warnings will still show for deleting items though.
Fix name auto-completion in BlackBook module. Now works with Blizzard's one and still retains previous behavior.
Additionally, you can now choose which lists (Alts/Recent/Contacts/Friends/Guild) Postal will auto-complete names from, as well as disable Blizzard's name auto-completion popup in the BlackBook module options.
Postal now shows a tooltip containing the mail subject on mouseover if the subject line is too long to fit in the default MailFrame.
The mailbox will no longer show the silly red "Not all of your mail could be delivered. Please delete some mail to make room." message under our Open and Return buttons in the Select module when you have more than 50 mails. Postal will print it to chat once instead.

Changes from v3.1.1 to v3.1.2

Hides the minimap unread mail button if there are no unread mail on closing the mailbox. Does not scan past the first 50 items since only the first 50 are viewable.
Change the opening speed menu to show speeds between 0.3 to 1.0 (with 0.05 steps) and 1.0 to 5.0 (with 0.5 steps). Change the default opening speed from 0.75 to 0.50.
Add separate OpenAll filters specific to your Faction AH and Neutral AH.

Changes from v3.1.0 to v3.1.1

Attempt to fix autocomplete in IME char composition mode.
Fix mouse wheel scrolling in the MailFrame.
Update passing arguments for some hooks in patch 3.1.

Changes from v3.0.0 to v3.1.0

You are recommended to '''delete your old Postal folder''' before installing the new one because it is a Ace3 rewrite and there are a lot of old files and libraries that are no longer needed.

Framework: Upgraded from Ace2 to Ace3.
Libraries: DewdropLib is gone. Now uses UIDropDownMenu in the default UI.
Profile system: Now actually works. The old Postal saved profiles in character specific SVs, so it was useless for copying or sharing.
Localization: Now uses the wowace localization app at http://www.wowace.com/projects/postal/localization/ to auto-generate the locale files. As such, all 8 locale files are now merged into 1 file since it no longer needs to be maintained manually.
Slash command /postal: Removed. I don't think anyone used it.
DejaVu module: Removed. Its functions are now in BlackBook module.

Note: Your old settings (from v3.0.0) are NOT migrated. It should only take at most 30 seconds to look at the 10 or so settings anyway.

Optional Files - Postal

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Archived Versions - Postal

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
Postal	v3.2.1	61kB	Xinhuan	08-30-2009 02:04 PM
Postal	v3.2.0	61kB	Xinhuan	08-10-2009 02:30 PM
Postal	v3.1.2	57kB	Xinhuan	05-21-2009 07:40 PM
Postal	v3.1.1	68kB	Xinhuan	04-15-2009 11:42 PM
Postal	v3.1.0	64kB	Xinhuan	02-14-2009 01:44 PM
Postal	v3.0.1	144kB	Xinhuan	10-14-2008 02:28 PM

Comments - Postal

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12-06-2008, 11:07 AM
brykrys A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 4 File comments: 36 Uploads: 3	How do you set Postal up so that all alts on the same server-faction use the same "Blackbook" contact list? And is there a setting for Postal to Autofill the "To" field with the name of the last person your current alt sent mail to?

12-03-2008, 06:12 AM

Xinhuan

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 11

File comments: 136

Uploads: 11

Re: Feature idea: logging option

Quote:

Originally posted by Xambrian
Hiho,

is it possible to add an logging-option for sent-mails/items? Eg. stored in 'World of Warcraft\Logs'-folder?

So, an logging option would be handy, even when submitting an ticket and talking to an GM.

Have a nice day

Not possible at all.

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Author/Maintainer of Postal, Omen3, GemHelper, BankItems, WoWEquip, GatherMate, Routes and Cartographer_Routes

12-03-2008, 05:16 AM
Xambrian A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 23 Uploads: 0	Feature idea: logging option Hiho, is it possible to add an logging-option for sent-mails/items? Eg. stored in 'World of Warcraft\Logs'-folder? Since WotLK some friends told me they're missing mails, never with attached gold, but sometimes with attached items, and yesterday I had the same effect. I sent two mails to an friends char, one with 9 stacks of 'Soul Essence', the second one with 7 stacks of 'Arcane Dust'. The 'Soul Essence'-mail arrived, the other one did not. (Notice: as there are only 2 of the ones having those problems are running postal I guess its not an problem with postal itself.) So, an logging option would be handy, even when submitting an ticket and talking to an GM. Have a nice day

11-27-2008, 11:24 AM
Raederle A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 8 File comments: 42 Uploads: 0	I was gradually getting frustrated with MailTo's lack of opening options even as wow's default ability to rightclick to add an item to mail replaced most of MailTo's sending options. Postal is a great replacement, giving what wow and MailTo lack and doing less tracking that I didn't want anyway. But there is one MailTo feature I miss. Could you please add a rightlick = take one ability? In other words if I send myself 8 stacks of healing potions, a right click on that mail item should not open the item (left click already does that) but rather just take one stack from the collection. It shouldn't matter which stack, you can default to first or last whicever is easiest, as this would only be sensible when all attachments are the same and it's user beware when they're not. Thanks, Raederle

11-08-2008, 05:08 PM
Xinhuan A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 11 File comments: 136 Uploads: 11	There is currently an issue with reloading your UI or relogging in your character when turning on/off addons in 3.0.3 and 3.0.2. I suspect the 2 addons are both working fine, you would just need to restart your wow completely each time you disable/enable an addon, and has something to do with the load order. Issue has already been reported to Blizzard. __________________ Author/Maintainer of Postal, Omen3, GemHelper, BankItems, WoWEquip, GatherMate, Routes and Cartographer_Routes

11-07-2008, 05:47 AM
vpr A Theradrim Guardian Forum posts: 62 File comments: 274 Uploads: 0	Hello - I'm having a few problems between two addons, I'm not sure who's fault it is, but I'm posting on both author's sites. The problem lies between POSTAL and Better Inbox. Basically I was running Better Inbox, but decided to try out Postal. I couldn't decide which I liked better, so I decided to try Better Inbox again - once I did that, Better Inbox was broken - it would look like this: Now I know this isn't your addon, but the curious thing was that if I enabled both BI and Postal, BI would work w/ postal overlayed (clearly in the wrong positions) over it. But if you just use BI after having tried Postal (even w/ Postal disabled) BI becomes broken. Even more curious, if you go into ..\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<username>\<server name>\<character name>\SavedVariables and erase the postal variables then log back in Better Inbox works fine. I'm not sure who's addon is at fault here, but I've posted on BI's site, I'm just posting here to make you aware... Thanks for your time, ~Vpr

10-27-2008, 09:56 PM

Twidget

A Fallenroot Satyr

Forum posts: 23

File comments: 251

Uploads: 0

Re: Re: Suggestion...

Quote:

Originally posted by Xinhuan
I'm sorry to say that most of the code in Postal is actually hardcoded to save settings in a per-character format, so it is impossible to share data across different characters since the data of other characters do not even get loaded by wow.

This is actually an oversight by the original author of Postal, he added a profile system but continued to use SavedVariablesPerCharacter instead of teh global one, so you end up with a working profile system, but the profile system only worked on 1 character and profiles made on one character can't be seen by any other character.

What you can do is, make the settings perfect on one character, then find that character's savedvariable file, for example:

E:\Games\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\(Account name)\Blackrock\Xinhuan\SavedVariables\Postal.lua

Then copy that file to your other characters's Server\Realm\SavedVariables folder. The file copying has to be done while wow is not running.

If I get around to rewriting Postal in Ace3 or as a framework-less addon, This issue will get fixed.

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I tried what you said about copying the file and it worked great. Thanks!
If you ever do rewrite it we will be sure to get it.

Thanks
Twidget & Shiba

10-27-2008, 11:37 AM

Xinhuan

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 11

File comments: 136

Uploads: 11

Re: Suggestion...

Quote:

Originally posted by Twidget
Hi,
First just let me say that both myself and my wife love your mod and couldn't live without it. Thanks!

We have one suggestion... One of our favorite features of the mod is the saved drop down list of toons you send mail to. Would it be possible to make it so that if we save a toon to this list that it would be shared will all my alts so I wouldn't have to add that person again and again to each alts saved list? With some toons having funky ascii chars in there names this can be a pain to do more then once if you can't remember the alt-number pad sequence.

Thanks again for the best mail mod period!

Twidget & Shiba

I'm sorry to say that most of the code in Postal is actually hardcoded to save settings in a per-character format, so it is impossible to share data across different characters since the data of other characters do not even get loaded by wow.

This is actually an oversight by the original author of Postal, he added a profile system but continued to use SavedVariablesPerCharacter instead of teh global one, so you end up with a working profile system, but the profile system only worked on 1 character and profiles made on one character can't be seen by any other character.

What you can do is, make the settings perfect on one character, then find that character's savedvariable file, for example:

E:\Games\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\(Account name)\Blackrock\Xinhuan\SavedVariables\Postal.lua

Then copy that file to your other characters's Server\Realm\SavedVariables folder. The file copying has to be done while wow is not running.

If I get around to rewriting Postal in Ace3 or as a framework-less addon, This issue will get fixed.

__________________
Author/Maintainer of Postal, Omen3, GemHelper, BankItems, WoWEquip, GatherMate, Routes and Cartographer_Routes

10-27-2008, 10:42 AM
Twidget A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 23 File comments: 251 Uploads: 0	Suggestion... Hi, First just let me say that both myself and my wife love your mod and couldn't live without it. Thanks! We have one suggestion... One of our favorite features of the mod is the saved drop down list of toons you send mail to. Would it be possible to make it so that if we save a toon to this list that it would be shared will all my alts so I wouldn't have to add that person again and again to each alts saved list? With some toons having funky ascii chars in there names this can be a pain to do more then once if you can't remember the alt-number pad sequence. Thanks again for the best mail mod period! Twidget & Shiba

10-20-2008, 09:18 PM
Xinhuan A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 11 File comments: 136 Uploads: 11	No problem, glad you liked it!

10-19-2008, 02:21 PM
wolfchild A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 30 Uploads: 0	/hug oh sorry misread the first page thought it said please post hugs in here. you deserved a hug anyway after my betterinbox broke after the patch thanks for this! wolfy

10-14-2008, 03:38 PM
wolftech A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 2 Uploads: 0	Thank the gods! I was worried that my favorite mail mod wouldnt get updated for the Beta!

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