Request for PM Enhancement

[Lord Mayerling]

I have my profile set up so I get email notifications when someone sends me a PM here on E, but there it ends.

I was wondering if it might be possible, or an eventual option, to be able to reply to such an email notification, and then E would pass it on as a PM to the intended recipient. I'm assuming this has probably been discussed before. I guess I'm just wondering what some of the opinions and determinations were, if any.

[Lithos]

Seconded, I do most all of my gaming and such over Gmail, I always forget to reply to PM:s cause I cannot reply to them where I read them :/

[Vekseid]

I have my profile set up so I get email notifications when someone sends me a PM here on E, but there it ends.

I was wondering if it might be possible, or an eventual option, to be able to reply to such an email notification, and then E would pass it on as a PM to the intended recipient. I'm assuming this has probably been discussed before. I guess I'm just wondering what some of the opinions and determinations were, if any.

The actual plan for the new CMS is that personal messages will be actual e-mail accounts, that you can access through any client capable of talking to an IMAP server (Thunderbird, etc).

Subscribers will be able to use it as any other e-mail account, others will be restricted to sending to accounts on the network. So you would take one of lordmayerling@elliquiy.com, lord-mayerling@elliquiy.com, or lord.mayerling@elliquiy.com and that would be your actual account name. Similarly, lithos@elliquiy.com would also be your account.

By default, you would only be able to send to other accounts on the same network (@elliquiy.com, @trancephalon.com (the LLC), @bluemoonroleplaying.com, etc), and they would be the only people able to send to you. A subscriber would be able to turn that limitation off, and send e-mails to anyone and get them (and spam >_>) from anyone.

Purpose being that e-mail is something that many, many people have gotten to scale rather impressively, so I could eventually split the PM system off of our current I/O limited systems with few issues.

[Haibane]

That would be completely awesome and very very welcome. Would the existing PM system remain or should we prepare for a mental gear change when it happens?

[Vekseid]

I'm basically going to be launching the new CMS under a non-adult banner (a more generic roleplaying platform), and let people get acclimated to that. Elliquiy will then get slowly absorbed into the new CMS, accordingly.

[Lord Mayerling]

Sweet! Exactly the kind of enhancement I was looking for. I especially like the idea that the user can control whether or not the email account can receive emails from other domains.

You're the man, Veks.