PBEM68 Org Thread

[Sian]

... gmail throws that one back in my face saying its not a valid adress...

[Miguelito]

For now you can send the save to me and I'll forward it to him.

[Grimace]

Yes, thank you Brick for setting us up the bomb!

[Sian]

hmm ... somethings off with gmail ... now it suddenly accepts Ardiens mail as proper

[AdrienIer]

Got the save, and a mail to confirm the tracker. Will send to Retep soon.

[Sian]

AdrienIer, the tracker is not quite up and running yet so the save won't go anywhere by you sending it there yet, so please send it directly to retep

[AdrienIer]

Oh sorry. Resent.

[Grimace]

How does the tracker work? This is my first PBEM. Do we just send the save to the PBEM email and it routes it to the next player?

[Sian]

yes, When the tracker is fully up and running (still need retep to accept forwarding so i can set it up for AdrienIer and Miguelito's saves are forwarded to him.

It works like this (when its set up)

You send the save to it.
It notes that the mail are from your address (so sending from any random at random at random won't work) and that it contains an attached file and then the account have a number of filters setup, each of them have the specification "if from address xyz with attached file, then forward the mail to address abc".

When I send, it fits two filters and sends to ArdienIer and Miguelito, when either of those two send it fits the filter that says to forward to Retep, when he sends, it fits the filter that sends to you, when you send it fits the filter that says to send to me

[retep]

I accpetd the tracker and send the save manually to grimace to keep things going for now.