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Postal

 
Project Updated:
Files Updated: Wed, Dec 9 2009
Supports Game Version: 3.3.0
Category: Mail
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Project Manager: Xinhuan
Additional Authors: grennon
Current Version: v3.3.0
License: All Rights Reserved
Development Site: WowAce.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 2,661
Downloads Total: 911,079
Favorites: 2,297
Comments: 126
  • About Postal
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About 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 Logs

Changes from v3.2.2 to v3.3.0

  • Updated for patch 3.3!
  • Add backward compatibility for MrPlow API function call change.
  • Tweak mail opening algorithm so that it won't skip mails when the opening speed is really fast (such as 0.3).
  • In BlackBook module, Friends will now auto-complete if Guild disabled and they are in Guild (and vice-versa).
  • Raise frame level of some buttons by 1.
  • Add workaround to Blizzard's patch 3.3 menu buttons showing behind the menu itself hence they appear disabled.

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.

  • Downloads (5)
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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  Postal v3.3.0 Release 3.3.0 70,909 12/9/2009
  Postal v3.2.2 Release 3.2.0 121,824 10/10/2009
  Postal v3.2.1 Release 3.2.0 118,552 8/30/2009
  Postal v3.2.0 Release 3.2.0 90,799 8/10/2009
  Postal v3.1.2 Release 3.1.0 145,549 5/21/2009
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  • Krellmax said

    It appears that seemingly random people will show up in the Send To auto-completion. I was informed by a GM that this is expected, that anyone you ever grouped with or sent/received a tell would end up on the auto-completion. This is horrible design. Is there any way Postal could filter those out? To ONLY auto-complete for what is selected in BlackBook?

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  • Xinhuan said

    Yes, this is possible, I'll look into it.

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  • candrie said

    So Since 3.3 every odd time I goto open my mailbox it crashes me back to desktop.

    Usually happens randomly about every other time (as I do a ton of auctions this is a huge issue).

    I disabled postal and it works fine no crashes.

    I re-enabled postal. Crashes wow.

    Fully updated.

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  • Krellmax said

    Yep, same thing for me as well. I know the crash isn't exactly Postal's fault, as Blizzard shouldn't allow an AddOn to do anything to crash the client, but it is indeed caused by something Postal does. I just don't know how we can figure out what it is. I'd be willing to test some things if the author wants.

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  • Xinhuan said

    I'm sorry, there's not much I can do about this, especially since I do not know what is causing the crash, and it would be impossible to find out short of you commenting out line by line, module by module which line of code could be the cause of a WoW crash, and only on your computer.

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  • sidelsky18 said

    Using "open all" worked fine until today. Clicking it will open all at the usually speedy pace but then slow down after 15-25 mail to about 1 every 2 seconds. It's not lag, how do I fix it?

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  • Xinhuan said

    Not much, heh.

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  • Sometimes when I open my mailbox the first time I get booted from the game. On returning it lets me access it fine. Any suggestions?

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  • legba289 said

    No instructions on how to get into BlockBook mode.
    No icons ingame.
    No option appear in game via Interface, Addon.

    FAIL.

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  • Goldpaw said

    "BlackBook: Adds a contact list next to the To: field. "

    It says so on the top of this very page. Whenever you send a mail, you simply have to click the arrow right next to the "to:" field in the "Send Mail" tab of the mail window.

    The rest of the settings are available from the arrow right next to the "Open All" button at the button of the "Inbox" mail tab. Which the screenshot the author has supplied shows.

    All these things are very, very easy to find. If you bother to do stuff like, you know, read words.
    :)

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  • Blizz made me change my names on my toons. So now I have them all named Mora with different alt codes on the o's and the a's. But when I am trying to send mails to my alts I can't see the alt code good enough to tell who i am mailing my goods to. Is it possable to add the class next to the alt list? Or even all names. So it would say something like.. Mora (Mage)

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  • Krellmax said

    Bug report, as posted on wowace.com:

    BlackBook - Friends do not auto-complete if Guild disabled and they are in Guild

    What steps will reproduce the problem?
    1. Enable "BlackBook"
    2. Go to "Name auto-completion options"
    3. Enable "Friends"
    4. Disable "Guild"
    5. Type in friend's name in the To textbox when sending a mail

    What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

    I expect it to auto-complete the name but it does not. It seems the Guild "blacklist" overrides the Friends "whitelist" and I believe it should be the other way around. You should always be able to auto-complete a Friend's name if you have Friends enabled.

    What version of the product are you using?

    3.2.2

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  • Xinhuan said

    This bug is now fixed in the latest alhpa zip of Postal (on wowace). Thanks!

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  • Fred7 said

    I got this on "open all" today.
    Message: ..\AddOns\Postal\Modules\OpenAll.lua line 210:
    attempt to call method 'ParseInventory' (a nil value)
    Debug:
    (tail call): ?
    [C]: ParseInventory()
    Postal\Modules\OpenAll.lua:210:
    Postal\Modules\OpenAll.lua:105
    (tail call): ?
    Postal\Modules\OpenAll.lua:29:
    Postal\Modules\OpenAll.lua:25

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  • Xinhuan said

    Me and wobin (author of MrPlow) have fixed this in our latest alphas.

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  • Beutju said

    When hovering over a mail with the maximum number of items attached, the last two icons are not shown. Happens even when all other addons are disabled. See this screenshot:
    http://img177.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_21197_WoWScrnShot_112209_210947_122_374lo.jpg

    Any solution?

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  • Beutju said

    I took a look at the code in express.lua and don't understand why this happens. ATTACHMENTS_MAX_RECEIVE is 16, so 12 items should be no problem.
    GetInboxItem(this.index, i); goes from 1 to 16, and I checked it with my mails; when I manually /script print(..) this stuff it shows all information for all 12 items; so the texture should also be added.
    No idea why it doesn't -.-

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  • Beutju said

    Found the problem:
    "Note: There is a limit of 10 textures per tooltip (as seen in GameTooltipTemplate.xml)"

    Would it be possible to model a new tooltip, like "mailto" does?

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  • Beutju said

    Ok and because I'm very kind; here the solution =)

    Replace line 57 @ express.lua with
    tooltip:AddLine("|T"..itemTexture..":30|t "..("%sx%d"):format(itemLink, count))

    Replace line 59 @ express.lua with
    tooltip:AddLine("|T"..itemTexture..":30|t "..itemLink)

    Delete line 61

    The number (30) is for the size of the icon; maybe you want to add an option to modify it [0-xx], because bigger items are nice, when you cannot really see the small ones.

    greetings =)

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  • Xinhuan said

    The problem with this solution is word-wrapping. When tooltip textures are embedded into the fontstring, you get weird word-wrapping results at different UI sizes. This is explored in posts #412 to #416 at this link:

    http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?p=196108#post196108

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