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Status of MassMailer in 4.01

As you may know, in the 4.01 patch, Blizzard instituted a number of throttling measures to chat channels (to prevent spamming). In the patch notes, there was no mention of this applying to sent mail messages; however, it appears that there was a server-side undocumented change that now limits the number of outgoing mails. As a result, MassMailer is effectively dead.

Honestly, I could probably get around this new limitation, but I do not plan to for the following reasons:

In the past, I have made statements in defense of MassMailer to the effect of, "MassMailer is just using standard WoW API; if Blizzard doesn't want me doing this, they would change things to break the addon." Well, frankly, it appears that they have done just that. As a result, I can no longer develop an addon that Blizzard is obviously discouraging. The purpose of MassMailer has always been to support guild and team communication-never spam-so I will not write something that is actively circumventing the security measures that Blizzard has placed in the game to protect the privacy and security of its customers.
Any work-around would probably involve adding a delay between groups of messages to reset the server-side count. Doing this would make sending messages a lengthy and frustrating process.
In full disclosure, lately I have had a pretty limited amount of time to devote to video games. What time I do have, I'd like to spend playing rather than writing code (which I do all day). I've had a lot of fun developing MassMailer, but I don't think I could continue to give it the level of attention and support that it deserves. However, if anyone is interested in taking over the project to continue to develop it in a more officially-sanctioned way, I'll be happy to provide you with all the materials necessary to do so.

MassMailer was created to fill a a gaping hole in in-game communication and to facilitate the communication between players and group leaders. I think it's a little short-sighted on Blizzard's part to prevent the continued development of such addons, but, alas, such is life. I sincerely hope that Blizzard will either reconsider its position (since I've never found mail-based spam to be at all a problem) or create an improved method for communicating with offline guild and team members in a more officially sanctioned way.

Thanks,

Necramar

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Posted Jul 4, 2010
Uploaded v2.0.3, should fix that. My bad, it was late last night when I was doing the locale files.

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Posted May 22, 2010
Morning. THis addon is great. Tough, when i create a group and try to introduce the name of the chars, some appear as "invalid char name". WOrds like: Änt, Belña aren't accepted. If i put them as Ant and Belna they are, tough my mate don't receive the mail. Can u help me?
Thnks in advance

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Posted May 22, 2010
Hmmm, I imagine that's a problem with the pattern matching that checks for valid character names when creating a new contact. I may end up just removing any sort of validation because it's gonna be too hard to get it working with multiple locales. I'll try to get a patch up and running by this evening, if you wanna check back then.

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Posted May 22, 2010
Yeah, like an idiot I have it matching against letters (a-z), which obviously won't work for characters in other languages besides English (my bad...). I'll probably just change it to make sure no digits (0-9) or special characters (e.g. #, %, !, etc) are inserted. Fix will be up soon.

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Posted May 22, 2010
I really thank you. It's a great addon.

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Posted May 22, 2010
Happy to help and thanks for the support!

I have uploaded Beta v1.2.3, which contains a fix to this issue. It was getting too complicated to try and make the validation work for multiple languages (and regular expressions make my face hurt), so people will just have to be careful about the names they enter. =P

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Posted May 22, 2010
Hello. First of all, thnks for all the effort. I installed new versions but when i press mass mailer button, the window opens with a single buttton (close button). The rest is in blank. I dunno if it's my problem or not. BUt if someone can try this and write here the results, would be nice.
THnks once again

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Posted May 22, 2010
Hmmm...any way you can provide a bug report? The addon !BugGrabber is great for this. I can't think of anything I changed between v1.2.2 and v1.2.3 that would be causing this kind of error. Anyway, run down this checklist and lemme know the results.

1) Are you using a non-English locale?
2) Have you tried disabling all other addons?
3) Have you tried deleting the SavedVariables file (Wow Folder\WTF\Account\ACCOUNT_NAME\SavedVariables\MassMailer.lua)?

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Posted May 22, 2010
Also, make sure you have removed the MassMailer addon files completely before installing a new version.

I haven't been able to reproduce the error, so without a bug report, I'm not too sure what to tell you... :(

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Posted May 23, 2010
hello: there u go:
6. MassMailer-1.2.4\MassMailer.lua:139: attempt to index upvalue 'BodyBox' (a nil value).
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1884
enabledState = true
SpawnAddMember = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1415
RegisterEvent = <function.
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:303
SetEnabledState = <function> defined .
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:242
SpawnCreateGroup = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1356
SpawnGroupEditor = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1110
ToggleSig = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:456
ToggleCreateGroup = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:513
IsModule = <function> defined .
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:540
Sender = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1864
CALENDAR_OPEN_EVENT = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:343
ToggleGroup = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:442
RegisterMessage = <function> defined .
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:269
MAIL_CLOSED = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:248
DisableModule = <function> defined .
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1839
LoadSavedOptions = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1832
SpawnEventFrame = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1542
name = "MassMailer"
SpawnAddress = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:629
IsEnabled = <function> defined .
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:236
GetName = <function> defined .
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:468
defaultModuleLibraries = {
}
baseName = "MassMailer"
Split = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1964
trim = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1960
ParseBody = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1920
ParseNames = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:1907
ToggleAddMember = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:525
NewModule = <function> defined .
@Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:423
OnInitialize = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:62
UnregisterAllEvents = <function> defined .
5. MassMailer-1.2.4\Libs\mmWidgets\mmFrame.lua:18: attempt to index field 'closebutton' (a nil value)
MassMailer-1.2.4\MassMailer.lua:549: in function `SpawnFrame'
MassMailer-1.2.4\MassMailer.lua:419: in function `ToggleFrame'
MassMailer-1.2.4\MassMailer.lua:107: in function <Interface\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:107>

Locals:
self =
{
SetDefaultModuleLibraries = <function> defined .

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Posted May 23, 2010
1) Are you using a non-English locale?
y, spanish
2) Have you tried disabling all other addons?
y
3) Have you tried deleting the SavedVariables file (Wow Folder\WTF\Account\ACCOUNT_NAME\SavedVariables\MassMailer.lua)?
y

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Posted May 23, 2010
Ok mate.. don't touch it. I removed some addons i don't use anymore and it's working perfectly. Many thnks. REally

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Posted May 21, 2010
Postal author here!

I'm happy you created this addon Necramar, because I get frequent requests to add mass-mailing ability which I don't intend to add (I believe there is potential for abuse by gold sellers).

I'll direct future Postal users to MassMailer if they ask for this ability. :)

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Posted May 21, 2010
Thanks for the support! Postal is awesome! When I set out to write MassMailer, I very deliberately tried to avoid duplicating Postal features--why reinvent the wheel?

I've thought long and hard about the gold-spammer issue, and have come to a few conclusions:

1) I deliberately avoided adding features that allowed sending attachments. I didn't want a situation to occur where someone gets their account hacked and their bank is mailed off to a bunch of hacker characters.

2) Gold spammers probably have a much better program for doing something like this, since they by definition aren't bound by the WoW EULA and API (with external programs that don't run in game).

3) MassMailer uses nothing but the defined API provided by Blizzard. When Blizzard included the "SendMail" function as a non-internal API, they had to guess that someone would stick it in a loop, right?

Thanks again!

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Posted May 13, 2010
Thanks for your help

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Posted May 14, 2010
No problem at all. :)

Thanks for reporting this issue. I don't use Prat myself, so I likely wouldn't have know about it otherwise.

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Posted May 14, 2010
As it turns out, the Prat problem was totally my fault (sorry Prat folks!) and I should have a fix coming out shortly.

LUA is not my normal programming language, so I tend to do things in it that "work" but aren't necessarily correct...

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Posted May 12, 2010
Errors like crazy I hope it get fixed but something is wrong with last update

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Posted May 13, 2010
Any way you could be more specific than that?

What errors are you seeing? Are you using the Beta version (which likely does have errors, hence the "beta") or are you referring to the stable version (1.0.2)? Can you paste an error log?

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Posted May 13, 2010
Date: 2010-05-13 08:27:19
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\MassMailer\MassMailer.lua line 524:
attempt to index field 'editbox' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:524: SpawnFrame()
MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:401: ToggleFrame()
MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:119:
MassMailer\MassMailer.lua:119

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