Subject: Email from inside the MOO.

From: Andrew Donkin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 14:46:24 -0700

One of the options for @make-player is an email address.  Is "real"
email (at the risk of offending anyone who believes, quite rightly, that
MOO mail is "real" also) supposed to be sent to that address?  If so, via
what mechanism?  It sure isn't working here.  We're running MH6.8 on
Solaris 2.1 (that could explain a few things).

	It's no great hassle - we haven't many players and are in constant
contact with them anyway, but I'd like to know if I haven't set something
up properly.

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From: [email-masked] (Erik Ostrom)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 12:10:20 -0700

> MOO mail is "real" also) supposed to be sent to that address?  

Yes.

>								 If so, via
> what mechanism?  

You.

>		   It sure isn't working here.  

Well, that's probably because you aren't using it right.

Joe eyes himself warily.

Okay.  Since LambdaMOO doesn't have open_network_connection, and hence
can't send mail, the way we do it is, somebody does a @make-player and
then sends a form letter to the email address.  This is not
ideal.

A MOO with open_network_connection could rewrite @make-player to send
mail to the address itself.  A good start would be to port JaysHouse's
$network (and change the values of properties that are
JH-specific)--then it wouldn't be hard to hack @make-player to call
$network:sendmail with some appropriate arguments.

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Bradshaw)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 17:22:01 -0700

> $network:sendmail with some appropriate arguments.

I have done just this. The command REQUEST/CREATE will allow creation of 
new characters and send the password to their e-mail address. The same
program can be invoked by any guest using @request and a variation of
the program is used for @make-player. It is great.

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