This mod, based on cheapie's, is even more useful than the original. My personal highlights are the inclusion of the outbox and the fact that you can now /mail <username> and it actually opens the compose form to send that user a mail message.
Mail is pretty much the ideal solution for letting players contact others who are offline, especially administrators and moderators. Of course it may not scale to a huge server, where the admin might end up with two dozen mail messages every time they log in, some of which may be obsolete. But it does work well overall for small to medium servers. With mail mod, you can leave signs on your properties that say things like "If there are any problems or requests, simply /mail Blockhead" and people can leave feedback that you are sure to receive.
For roleplay/realism, I would instead recommend - as an alternative or additional system - everamzah's mailbox mod (or the version in homedecor, if you like the art style and don't need things like post offices). You can send goods, including books, through mailbox, which may be preferable.
I wouldn't recommend /mail, or Minetest in general, as a secure means of communication. The server admin can read the contents of messages easily enough, even if it's not directly included as a mod feature, and the Minetest protocol is (at the time of review) not encrypted. For that purpose I would use an out-of-game system like Matrix, PGP-signed email and so on.
First, of course this is not focused to be a secure communication, as admins can see the messages through the logs.
Concerning the scale of the server, we're working to "extend" it, notably with the reinforced storing system making it very fast, and in the short term (planned for next release), an anti-spam features, which imho will be useful for spam-concerned servers, which are mainly big servers.
That sounds like very good news!
For most servers, a wordlist & regexp - based antispam should be quite enough. (Possibility to add your list & implemented links to common lists. Auto-update of lists using http - requests.)
For big servers - if even needed - maybe external services such as Akismet might do the job.
This mod, based on cheapie's, is even more useful than the original. My personal highlights are the inclusion of the outbox and the fact that you can now
/mail <username>and it actually opens the compose form to send that user a mail message.Mail is pretty much the ideal solution for letting players contact others who are offline, especially administrators and moderators. Of course it may not scale to a huge server, where the admin might end up with two dozen mail messages every time they log in, some of which may be obsolete. But it does work well overall for small to medium servers. With mail mod, you can leave signs on your properties that say things like "If there are any problems or requests, simply /mail Blockhead" and people can leave feedback that you are sure to receive.
For roleplay/realism, I would instead recommend - as an alternative or additional system - everamzah's mailbox mod (or the version in homedecor, if you like the art style and don't need things like post offices). You can send goods, including books, through mailbox, which may be preferable.
I wouldn't recommend /mail, or Minetest in general, as a secure means of communication. The server admin can read the contents of messages easily enough, even if it's not directly included as a mod feature, and the Minetest protocol is (at the time of review) not encrypted. For that purpose I would use an out-of-game system like Matrix, PGP-signed email and so on.
Thanks for the reply !
First, of course this is not focused to be a secure communication, as admins can see the messages through the logs.
Concerning the scale of the server, we're working to "extend" it, notably with the reinforced storing system making it very fast, and in the short term (planned for next release), an anti-spam features, which imho will be useful for spam-concerned servers, which are mainly big servers.
Anyway thx =)
That sounds like very good news! For most servers, a wordlist & regexp - based antispam should be quite enough. (Possibility to add your list & implemented links to common lists. Auto-update of lists using http - requests.) For big servers - if even needed - maybe external services such as Akismet might do the job.
Cheers, NA0341