LlEmail

Sends an email to address with subject and message.

The entire message (including the address, subject and other miscellaneous fields) can't be longer then 4096 bytes combined.

The message is prefixed with information about the prim sending the email.

Object-Name: *prim*
Region: *simname* (*simpos.x*, *simpos.y*)
Local-Position: (*primpos.x*, *primpos.y*, *primpos.z*)

*message*

Object-Name: Object
Region: Gibson (254976, 256000)
Local-Position: (117, 129, 50)

The real message starts here.

• This function causes the script to sleep for 20.0 seconds.
• There is a limit to the number of email messages an object can send in a given amount of time.
• Due to the bug SVC-23^[c] (present since 2005), objects may stop receiving emails completely until either the region is restarted or the object crosses a region boundary (resetting the script doesn't help). Emails sent may eventually be received after a restart/region-cross. Hence, don't rely on this function for reliable inter-region messaging.

 
string email = "";
 
default
{
    state_entry() 
    {
        if(email == "")
            email = (string)llGetKey()+"@lsl.secondlife.com";
 
        //Send an email to a normal email account
        llEmail( email, "Look it's an email subject line!", "Testing 1 2 3" );
    }
 
    touch_start( integer num_detected )
    {
        integer i = 0;
 
        //Send an email to the person who touched the prim
        do
            llEmail( email, "No touching!", "I was defiled by: " + llDetectedName(i) + "\nKey: " + (string) llDetectedKey(i) );
        while(++i < num_detected);
    }
}
 

 
email( string time, string address, string subj, string message, integer num_left )
{
    if(llGetSubString(address, -19, -1) == "@lsl.secondlife.com")//trim the header
        message = llDeleteSubString(message, 0, llSubStringIndex(message, "\n\n") + 1);
}
 

• Because of the long delay on this function, it is often called from a second script triggered by link message.
• If you are sending email within Second Life, remember that the address is [key]@lsl.secondlife.com
  • Which means if the key returned by llGetKey is "a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000003", then its email address is "a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000003@lsl.secondlife.com".

Events

• email
• link message

Functions

• llGetNextEmail
• llMessageLinked

Tests

• llEmail

Feature Design Document

(none)

Functional Spec

(none)

Test scripts

internal test

Discussion for future improvements

(none)

Relationship to other features

List of features that need to be tested when this feature changes, and why.

IM to email - verify IM -> email still works.

Postcards - Postcards use email out?

User Guides

llEmail on LSLwiki.net