IMing from out of SL

This probably isn't in the right forum topic, but I have a quick question:

Is it possible to IM someone who is in SL from outside of SL? If so, how?

(I ask this because my laptop is broken and I don't have access to a computer that can run SL, and I sort of need to inform a couple people that I won't be able to host things for them and such this week).

You can send IM via email to an object with an address of the form

<UUID>@im.secondlife.com

where <UUID> is the 64 byte UUID that uniquely identifies every object, including avators, in SL. This information, of course, doesn't help you if you don't know the key.

If your settings tell SL to forward IMs as email when you're not logged in, the key will be found in the return address of the forwarded message.

Thanks!

I had no luck sending email to an avatar's key as Lee proposed. The key that is in forwarded IMs is not the avatar key, it's a temporary email session key (try replying to a forwarded IM that is a few days old - it doesn't work).

I have an object that checks email periodically and verifies that the subject is an avatar key, then forwards the body of the email as an IM. IM me in world if you want the script. You can get most avatar keys from Ulrika's database http://www.ulrikasheim.org/tools/name2key.html