Send an email

[Uax]

Hey guys is there a way to send an email through pokemon essential script? I tried for hours but having no results. Is it possible?

I would appreciate any kind of help.

TY

 

[Aki]

Do you mean literally sending a message to the player who downloaded the game? Or some kind of feature in game where a character sends a message to another?

 

[Uax]

My idea was to do a script that get activated via event and send a message to a real email address for example when a player finish the game.

I saw that the library for SMTP messages is not there so I tried to include via "require" but it didn't work.

 

[Aki]

I think that's something you'd have to do outside of Essentials. Pokémon Nova Sun & Umbra Moon, for example, have a form to fill out before downloading the game, maybe you could try something similar asking for email addresses. It's a bit unusual to ask for an email address though, so I'm not sure if players would be into it.

 

[Luka S.J.]

Hmm ... you could try going through cmd? Using the system and a properly generated command string, you can launch cmd commands through Ruby. So in this case, maybe using Telnet or something of the like would allow you to send e-mails by going through the cmd (I have my suspicions that services like GMail would filter all of that into their spam folders anyway).

A quick google search gave me a couple of links:
https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204404584/sending-or-viewing-emails-using-telnet
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18652001/send-mail-via-cmd-console

 

[Uax]

mmm I wasn't thinking about something so elaborate, but rather a simply email or http request that saves the progress checkpoints of the players.

After digging I find out that there were already implemented function similar at the one that I needed used for the mistery gift.

With some changes I managed to get what I wanted.

TY guys