GreenAsJade Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Does anyone still use email to play PBEM? Do you happen to use gmail? If you do, then H2HH 2.1.1 Alpha is for you to try: it adds gmail support. You have to turn this on explicitly in the Options menu. Once you do that, you need to do Install->Edit and tell it your gmail address. And, for each game where your oppo sends you turns by email, to your gmail account, you need to do Game->Edit and tell it your oppo's email address (IE the address that the turns are coming from). It will do the rest: it will look up your gmail account for turns that your oppo sent, and pull them down into your Incoming, and it will help you compose outgoing emails to your oppo, and send them. This is all thanks to Charles-Texas-Toast-Mac-Reese. He coded this maybe a year ago, it's taken this long to get it "deployed". I hope someone is still using email for H2H games, and can benefit from this GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisy Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Thank you much for this. And yes, there are still players exchanging turns by email. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 Woo hoo - effort not to waste. Fingers crossed it works OK ... let us know how you go... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Mike Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Hi GaJ, great stuff, I usually only have opponents who use dropbox, but in a current battle, my opponent only uses EMail, so I tried the EMail support. Sending seems to work ok, but when H2HH tries to check the mailbox for new files, I always get this error: IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor Is there anythin I can do to make this work? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 Can you send me the H2HH log from after this happens. Ta! GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Mike Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Can you send me the H2HH log from after this happens. Ta! GaJ GaJ, I've raised a bug report (96_gkbj22cc), the log info is attached to it. Cheers, Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisy Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Have been trying the new version. Must the oppo also have a gmail address ? In the game details dialog (where you tell H2HH the oppo's email and where incoming and outgoing folders) - what do you put into "Application Name" ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted September 2, 2012 Author Share Posted September 2, 2012 The oppo does not have to have a gmail address - H2HH looks in _your_ gmail account for messages from your oppo. So it needs to know your gmail account and your oppo's email address. In "Application Name", you point it to the CMBN .exe (PC) or .app (Mac). That's so when you right-click, it can start the game for you. If you installed in the "default" place, this should already be set correctly. GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Do you plan to upload this at either the Mod Warehouse and/or the Repository? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted September 2, 2012 Author Share Posted September 2, 2012 Generally I have been uploading stable versions to CMMODS, though I actually prefer the Dropbox system because it's easier at my end for something that changes fairly often (CMMODS is more for "static" things) and the Dropbox gives me just that small piece of contact with the users that I don't otherwise get... GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 GaJ, How do we get access to the Dropbox? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 (for everyone else: send me your email, then I can add you to the access list) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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