Please explain @im.agni.lindenlab.com to me

Hello I'm trying to understand how the offline email works.

Do we have an email address at Second Life?
Is (long series of numbers)@im.agni.lindenlab.com it?
Does it change?
How often?

The addresses are temporary, only good for one IM session. They expire after a few days.

There is not a permanent email address for your avatar, but you could use a scripted object that relays messages to you (those @lsl.secondlife.com addresses are good for as long as the object is rezzed), or some third party service.

you can reply to offlline IMs to email up to 5 days after receipt. After that, the reply address will no longer work.

https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2007/02/06/im-to-e-mail-return-addresses-changing

Thanks for the replies



I need to be able to allow SL residents to simply contact a single point in SL and leave a message. I then need to have that message emailed to me from a consistent unchanging email address.

Is there an already available off-the-shelf solution for this?

No, no ready made solution is available that I know of.

However, the system you are looking for as you explain it is not that complex, And could be scripted easily.

Though, one catch. The email would change every time the sim restarts.

This could be worked around by having the script notify your webserver each time the email changed.

I forget whether or not on_rez calls at sim startup. If so, you could just have the object email you on startup. that would give you its current return email.

It will stay the same as long as it stays rezzed.

Pretty sure there are items called answering machines that would do that. I mean, in SL.

(They might just IM you, but you can get IM sent to your email.)

Why does it have to come from a consistent unchanging email address? A decent filtering system will allow at least primitive pattern matching.

An obvious off-the-shelf solution would be to just use an email system that can use an appropriate filter and automatically forward the email to you. But if you had access to a system that could do that, then why would you need it?

changed event fires on sim restarts and reports CHANGED_REGION_START

What you are asking for -- seamless communication with your avatar -- is impossible to achieve in Second Life.

The only way that this would be possible with Second Life, is if you had a specialized email system outside of Second Life. Such a system could be specially programmed to communicate with scripted objects in Second Life. (However, people in-world would still have to teleport to the communication object, and chat their messages to it or drop them into it using Notecards. The object could not intercept IMs intended for you or anything like that.)

If you have a server, I could be contracted to design and implement this next-best-thing solution for you.

Perhaps someday Linden Lab will offer the kind of email capability that you are asking for. Their marketing hype about business uses of SL tends to suggest capabilities in that general direction.

That 5 day thing may have been shortened. I've recently had email responses to IM's kicked back undeliverable after only 2 days.