Can't email

I was under the impression that I should be able to email <myUUID>@im.secondlife.com from an object in-game to get IMs sent to me. After some testing this doesn't seem to be the case.

How does email inbound to avatars work at the moment?

Thanks

Apple

your uuid only works if there is a session started

ie someone IM's me and im not online, i can email them back and have it show up tru their im
if i wait a day that session is nolonger valid and wont work anymore

it doesnt work @ all if your trying to have an object email, if you have to have it inworld use llInstantMessage

I think email to IM is based on the concept of a conversation, IE you can't start one from the email side.
If you need IMs(one way to the av from anywhere to anywhere) use llInstantMessage(key, message)

thanks for your help people. That is what i feard :/

I was asked to rework a pager system (currently using llSendInstantMessage) so that the messages would be recieved through normal IM procedure and not just scrolling in chat.

I guess we can't then :/

"Can't"? Ooooh. Rube Goldberg will rise from his grave to haunt you. I may be channeling him right now, who knows?

So the objection is llInstantMessage() shows up in chat history, right? You want it maybe a little more intrusive, to not get lost? Lotsa ways to do that.

The really brutal way: sign up a "Pager" agent with an email address of <your-pager-object's-UUID@lsl.secondlife.com>. You start an IM conversation with Pager. Your pager object gets the offline-IM email, scrapes the original sender (your IM session), you're good to go. Multiplexing could get weird, but I suspect it could be made usable without having to have one agent per pager object. This route would want lotsa safeties on it.

Another way, which gives up real-IM goodness for easier implementation: have an always-worn buzzer that spits received email text in a dialog.

Depending on what you want this for I can imagine other possibilities.