shirsig/Mail

Destination priority (alts>friends>guild>strangers)

Closed this issue · 3 comments

I just switched from postal to mail without thinking about keeping postal addon folder around and... bad move ^^
The default behavior of postal was to propose all your alts on the same account as default destination. Once you at least press a letter, alts came before friends, which came before strangers.
So for example, if Aaron is my alt, Abelinda my friend, and Abebe a stranger, when i send something, if i press the letter "a", postal was proposing Aaron first. Then if i continue and press b, Abelinda was proposed.
That behavior as disappeared with mail.
Can we have it back ?

Edit : false alert, it was just a matter of logging again all my alts, so the new addon can learn their existence.

There were no strangers before. About the time of the name change autocompletion was extended to senders and recipients. But yeah, dont think I even considered the priority then. Makes sense and will be an easy change.

Can we also have an option about friends (disabling them in the sender list) ? It's easy to send them something by mistake...
Actually, an option for each (alts/friends/guild/strangers) could help.

I've now changed it to prioritize by recency which i think makes even more sense than alts first. Whoever you've logged on as last, mailed to last or received from last will be the first in the autocomplete list (among the ones matching the entered string)
I don't like the idea of any options for mail, sorry.
(on a side note, if it's a big problem if you send something to a friend by accident maybe they're not a friend xD)

edit: but yeah as you found out the original problem was probably just having to re-register all alts because friends and guildmates without prior mail interaction have (always had) the lowest priority, and it's unlikely to have enough "strangers" to push your alts out of the listing regardless of the prioritization, so you probably had a listing filled with guild mates.