llInstantMessage: new behavior, or is it just me

I have property monitor scripts that update me periodically via instant messages. A couple of weeks (aug 8'ish) ago i stopped getting messages from them when i was offline.

So i did some testing and it seems that llInstantMessage in group deeded objects are no longer sending IMs to offline avatars. They don't get forwarded to email nor do they show up when the avatar logs back on. llInstantMessage works the way it always has in non-deeded objects or in deeded objects when the target av is online. I've tested this with several different alts, in several different regions on group owned and non-group owned land and the results are consistent.

It seems unlikely this is a widespread problem since i can't find any mention of similar problems in the forums or jira. Is this a known problem or is it just me?

The problem sounds very much like it could be related to this:



This has become a re-occurring problem. The last time it happened I was still getting the odd IM arriving in email but with very different headers.

Original 'reliable' email's first hop:

Received: from lindenlab.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by sim3429.agni.lindenlab.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F7892B44CD
for <*********@**********>; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:50:13 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20080612195013.8F7892B44CD@sim3429.agni.lindenlab.com>

These emails always had this subject line:
Subject: Message From Second Life


When the problem first emerged 'intermittent' email's first hop:

Received: by web-ds1.lindenlab.com (Postfix, from userid 33)
id 10161768211; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:53:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20080625145354.10161768211@web-ds1.lindenlab.com>

These emails had more finessed subject lines:
Subject: Second Life - the object '<object name>' has sent you a message
Subject: Second Life - <agent name> has sent you a message


For a while the emails once again reverted to the original format. What they look like now I have no idea because I don't receive ANY IMs to emails any more.

It wouldn't be a stretch to suppose that Linden have been tinkering with things. Torley Linden seemed to briefly show some interest in the problem but there has never been any kind of acknowledgement.

Someone with more knowledge of email set ups than me might speculate as to what web-ds1.lindenlab.com (as opposed to simxxxx.agni.lindenlab.com) was all about. I'm not sure web-ds1.lindenlab.com even exists any more. At the time of the email headers it reported its IP address as: [64.154.223.153] (helo=web-ds1.lindenlab.com), but just now that IP reports itself as: nat.janus.lindenlab.com

Does anyone have any current IM to email headers? Do they even exist at all?



Note: Janus is the Roman god of gateways, and also lends its name to January (the start of the year) and Janitor (caretaker).

Okay, I know this isn't strictly a scripting thing but it is damn annoying, so I'm going to bump this one.

Playing around with a mailinator email address () I can get IMs to go to email - still no luck with my own email address but there must be a clue in there somewhere. Accordingly, I've updated the Jira...