PBW -email

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Yokester:
Hmmm.... I wonder if you guys could figure out away to send a turn recieved confirmation. That way we would know our e-mail got through?

Yokester

We can, and we have. It sends a turn processed confirmation when you send your turn via email. And if it receives a turn and rejects it for some reason it sends a rejection email. Although as with most PC error Messages it's not always terribly specific about what the problem is causing it to be rejected. It's done this for a long time now actually. I think this is a feature Admiral added from the begining.

It takes a few minutes for emails to get processed though. It only checks for new emails every so often. But if you haven't got a good or bad confirmation within a half hour or so you should probably either check to see if the site is down, or just send another email. Maybe it got lost.

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Just go to the text based Version of the site and upload it. That is much easier and more reliable than using email to send in turns.

*sigh* Do try to keep up Fyron. The original poster in this thread stated he is going ot a slow connection and is looking for an alternative to the website.

Originally posted by DavidG:
Maybe Geo can confirm this can happen but I seem to recall that I sent a wrong file and the turn processed with the AI doing my turn.

Actually, this is possible. But it takes a combination of several errors on your part. The stuff on the subject line between the ~'s identifies the game, the player and the turn to PBW. For PBW to process an incorrect turn, you would have to send a previous turn for that particular game attached to the current email message. This however is possible to do via the website as well. It's not a failing of the email submission system.

All in all it's a pretty stable system. As long as you give it enough time to process your emails, and follow up if you don't get a confirmation or rejection.

Geoschmo