posted 12-08-10 08:42 AM EDT (US)
Download:
Hello everyone;
This is my first post on this forum. I've been playing this game (AoW 1) on and off for about ten years now, it's never worn off for me.
Anyway, a few weeks ago, an old friend of mine and I were talking about it and he gave me the idea to write this program. It's currently in BETA test and I am looking for people to volunteer to help test it. It's also going to be free and will have no annoying adverts or any rubbish.
I am sure everyone is aware of how fiddly it can be to get Age of Wonders to auto send emails correctly, especially nowadays it is quite common for SMTP servers to use SSL or sending authentication. It is also quite common for people to rent a house where the landlord provides the internet access and tenants don’t have access to create email accounts directly from the ISP they’re on. So, here we have the solution; the Age of Wonders Email Wrapper.
The program is a .Net windows app that pretends to be a lightweight SMTP server that the game understands, you just point the game at the local loop back IP address or 'localhost' and Autosend your emails. It takes the game email in and then sends it on via Google or whatever and using SSL if necessary. It also downloads emails too, it has periodic polling system. Currently only over IMAP, but I am going to add POP3 support too. So it takes all the pain away from messing about with drop downs, browsing to folders etc which you would usually have to do with manual email sending.
The program has a couple of configuration forms for you to set up your email settings, rather like you have in Outlook etc. It will then sit in the system tray and notify you with a sound and by changing its icon to an envelope when you have an email game come in. I am also going to add a load config and save config feature which will allow people to send their config file to a friend if they want them to do their turn for them during a period of absence or whatever. Gmail etc can be accessed from anywhere so the program lends itself well to being able to do this.
Currently I have a few people testing it over here and it’s working very well. If anyone here would like to give this a go then please leave a message for me on here and I’ll get in touch with you.
Thanks for reading everyone, I’ll post some screen shots of this on here soon!
All the best
Dave
Edit: Added the diagram above.
Hello everyone;
This is my first post on this forum. I've been playing this game (AoW 1) on and off for about ten years now, it's never worn off for me.
Anyway, a few weeks ago, an old friend of mine and I were talking about it and he gave me the idea to write this program. It's currently in BETA test and I am looking for people to volunteer to help test it. It's also going to be free and will have no annoying adverts or any rubbish.
I am sure everyone is aware of how fiddly it can be to get Age of Wonders to auto send emails correctly, especially nowadays it is quite common for SMTP servers to use SSL or sending authentication. It is also quite common for people to rent a house where the landlord provides the internet access and tenants don’t have access to create email accounts directly from the ISP they’re on. So, here we have the solution; the Age of Wonders Email Wrapper.
The program is a .Net windows app that pretends to be a lightweight SMTP server that the game understands, you just point the game at the local loop back IP address or 'localhost' and Autosend your emails. It takes the game email in and then sends it on via Google or whatever and using SSL if necessary. It also downloads emails too, it has periodic polling system. Currently only over IMAP, but I am going to add POP3 support too. So it takes all the pain away from messing about with drop downs, browsing to folders etc which you would usually have to do with manual email sending.
The program has a couple of configuration forms for you to set up your email settings, rather like you have in Outlook etc. It will then sit in the system tray and notify you with a sound and by changing its icon to an envelope when you have an email game come in. I am also going to add a load config and save config feature which will allow people to send their config file to a friend if they want them to do their turn for them during a period of absence or whatever. Gmail etc can be accessed from anywhere so the program lends itself well to being able to do this.
Currently I have a few people testing it over here and it’s working very well. If anyone here would like to give this a go then please leave a message for me on here and I’ll get in touch with you.
Thanks for reading everyone, I’ll post some screen shots of this on here soon!
All the best
Dave
Edit: Added the diagram above.
[This message has been edited by Davespice (edited 06-02-2011 @ 05:14 PM).]
In the mean time I am still looking for some volunteers to help me test it...
Kinda overkill, so if I can help with getting your program working perfectly that'd be great.
)
