About Postal
Postal offers enhanced mailbox support by providing the following features:
- BlackBook: Adds a contact list next to the To: field.
- Tracks all your characters (as you log each one on) and list them if they are on the same realm/faction on a "Alts" list
- Tracks the last 10 players you mailed on a "Recently Mailed" list.
- Autocomplete names from Alts/Recently Mailed/Contacts/Friends/Guild list. You can choose which of these lists to use.
- Option to autofill in the last person mailed to the To: field.
- Option to disable Blizzard's name auto-completion popup.
- DoNotWant: Shows a clickable visual icon as to whether a mail will be returned or deleted on expiry.
- Express: Adds shortcuts
- Shift-Click to take item/money from mail
- Ctrl-Click to return mail
- Alt-Click to move an item from your inventory to the current outgoing mail (same as right click in default UI)
- Mousewheel to scroll the inbox
- Added option to disable multiple item mail tooltips.
- OpenAll: Allows you to open all mails of selected types at one go in your inbox
- All AH Cancelled mail
- All AH Expired mail
- All AH Outbidded mail
- All AH Success mail
- All AH Won mail
- Non-AH mail with attachments
- Shift-Click on the OpenAll button will open all mail and override your filter settings.
- Choose to have a number of bag slots always left free when opening mail (You may need to slow down your opening speed option or leave more empty bag space due to server/client latency.)
- Rake: Displays summary of money gained from opening mail
- Select: Adds checkboxes to the inbox with buttons for selective opening/returning
- Added mail indicator numbers above the checkboxes.
- Added help note that you can Shift-Click 2 checkboxes to select everything between them.
- Added help note that you can Ctrl-Click a checkbox to select all mail from that sender.
- Choose to have a number of bag slots always left free when opening mail (You may need to slow down your opening speed option or leave more empty bag space due to server/client latency.)
- TradeBlock: Block trades and guild charter signature invites from people while you are at the Inbox
- Wire: Autoupdate the subject field with money amount if blank.
While this might not be too intuitive to some users, each character that you log on will have its own initial Postal profile (settings). If you wish that some or all your characters share the same profile (and hence share the same contact list), then you can create a New Profile, call it anything you want such as "Shared by Alts", and have all your other characters change to that profile.
Postal's menu and settings can be accessed at the upper right corner of your mailbox.
Please post bugs or suggestions at http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=3909.
Change Logs
Changes from v3.2.2 to v3.3.0
- Updated for patch 3.3!
- Add backward compatibility for MrPlow API function call change.
- Tweak mail opening algorithm so that it won't skip mails when the opening speed is really fast (such as 0.3).
- In BlackBook module, Friends will now auto-complete if Guild disabled and they are in Guild (and vice-versa).
- Raise frame level of some buttons by 1.
- Add workaround to Blizzard's patch 3.3 menu buttons showing behind the menu itself hence they appear disabled.
Changes from v3.2.1 to v3.2.2
- Fix the annoying error about editbox being nil caused by Postman's improper hooking.
- Change the "Please delete some mail..." standard Blizzard message into a more useful one that:
- Shows you how MANY mails remain after the current 50.
- Tells you how long (in seconds) it is until you get to refresh for more.
- Add a setting for "Keep free space", defaults to keeping 1 regular bagslot free in the Select and OpenAll modules. You may need to slow down your opening speed option or leave more empty bag space due to server/client latency.
- Make our BlackBook autocomplete complete before Blizzard's reinstated one. Make the Friends/Guild list BlackBook options affect Blizzard's autocomplete instead in its popup menu (if it is enabled).
- Add an option to turn on or off Postal's auto-complete (default on).
Changes from v3.2.0 to v3.2.1
- Fix the occasional issue where auto-complete will not start working until at least 2 letters are typed.
- Fix the Send button not enabling itself when typing in a name to send to after putting items into the mail first.
Changes from v3.1.2 to v3.2.0
- Updated for patch 3.2!
- TradeBlock module now also blocks guild charter signature invites while the mailbox is open.
- New module: DoNotWant. Shows a clickable visual icon as to whether a mail will be returned or deleted on expiry. Allows fast deleting/returning of mail by clicking the icon (bye Lunar festival mail!). Standard popup warnings will still show for deleting items though.
- Fix name auto-completion in BlackBook module. Now works with Blizzard's one and still retains previous behavior.
- Additionally, you can now choose which lists (Alts/Recent/Contacts/Friends/Guild) Postal will auto-complete names from, as well as disable Blizzard's name auto-completion popup in the BlackBook module options.
- Postal now shows a tooltip containing the mail subject on mouseover if the subject line is too long to fit in the default MailFrame.
- The mailbox will no longer show the silly red "Not all of your mail could be delivered. Please delete some mail to make room." message under our Open and Return buttons in the Select module when you have more than 50 mails. Postal will print it to chat once instead.
Changes from v3.1.1 to v3.1.2
- Hides the minimap unread mail button if there are no unread mail on closing the mailbox. Does not scan past the first 50 items since only the first 50 are viewable.
- Change the opening speed menu to show speeds between 0.3 to 1.0 (with 0.05 steps) and 1.0 to 5.0 (with 0.5 steps). Change the default opening speed from 0.75 to 0.50.
- Add separate OpenAll filters specific to your Faction AH and Neutral AH.
Changes from v3.1.0 to v3.1.1
- Attempt to fix autocomplete in IME char composition mode.
- Fix mouse wheel scrolling in the MailFrame.
- Update passing arguments for some hooks in patch 3.1.
Changes from v3.0.0 to v3.1.0
You are recommended to delete your old Postal folder before installing the new one because it is a Ace3 rewrite and there are a lot of old files and libraries that are no longer needed.
- Framework: Upgraded from Ace2 to Ace3.
- Libraries: DewdropLib is gone. Now uses UIDropDownMenu in the default UI.
- Profile system: Now actually works. The old Postal saved profiles in character specific SVs, so it was useless for copying or sharing.
- Localization: Now uses the wowace localization app at http://www.wowace.com/projects/postal/localization/ to auto-generate the locale files. As such, all 8 locale files are now merged into 1 file since it no longer needs to be maintained manually.
- Slash command /postal: Removed. I don't think anyone used it.
- DejaVu module: Removed. Its functions are now in BlackBook module.
Note: Your old settings (from v3.0.0) are NOT migrated. It should only take at most 30 seconds to look at the 10 or so settings anyway.
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r279 | xinhuan | 2009-12-09 18:22:30 +0000 (Wed, 09 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/v3.3.0 (from /trunk:278)
Tag release v3.3.0.
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Changed paths:
M /trunk/Postal.toc
Update TOC to 30300, Version to 3.3.0
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r277 | xinhuan | 2009-12-09 17:48:53 +0000 (Wed, 09 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Postal.lua
Add workaround to Blizzard's menu buttons showing behind the menu itself, caused by the senseless new "self:SetFrameLevel(2)" in a menu button's OnLoad handler.
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Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/OpenAll.lua
M /trunk/Modules/Select.lua
Account for inventory full and too many of a unique item errors for OpenAll and Select modules in the updated algorithm.
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Changed paths:
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In BlackBook module, Friends will now auto-complete if Guild disabled and they are in Guild (and vice-versa), reported by Krellmax.
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M /trunk/Modules/Select.lua
M /trunk/Postal.lua
Tweak mail opening algorithm so that it won't skip mails when the opening speed is really fast (such as 0.3). _*NEEDS TESTING*_
Raise frame level of some buttons by 1.
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Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/OpenAll.lua
M /trunk/Modules/Select.lua
Update for MrPlow API function call change.
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Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
