SL_POP3_IM is an instant-messaging software (like MSN, ICQ, Trillian...) useful to chat with your Second Life® friends when you are not in world. SL_POP3_IM uses your email account (pop3/smtp) to communicate, operating only on your Second Life® IM-to-email messages.



Why SL_POP3_IM ?

For better tracking of offline chat and smoother operation, you no longer need remove the "history" of the Im-to-Email when you reply and the messenger takes care of special characters. (Especially with the accents in many others language than english)

No Hud attachments, no weird process to perform, few management tasks with the contact list, for you and the one that wants to chat with you. (anyone can reach you from Second Life®, it's tranparent for them)


How it works

  • SL_POP3_IM displays the recieved communication as an instant-message. (like similar products: MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Trillian ...) It displays the message thread by sender like in the Second Life® IM window.


  • SL_POP3_IM reads only the emails from Second Life® IM communications in your mailbox. It will not affect the other emails received.


  • SL_POP3_IM is skinnable, you can customize it's look to suit your needs. It's possible to give it a look like your favorite instant-messaging system.


  • SL_POP3_IM is configurable as any email browser and it supports the basic SMPT authentification.


  • SL_POP3_IM can keeps a log of your communications. A bit easier than with a standard email browser, because with the IM, the email history is lost.



  • Security

    With SL_POP3_IM, you never have to provide your Second Life® username and password. It uses only your email account, and your login information is encrypted. The settings file is also encrypted to work only on your machine.



    Installation

  • Download it.

  • Unzip it.

  • Launch setup.exe, this will install the software.

  • Start SL_POP3_IM from the Startup / Programs menu.




  • Configuration

    Click the "Setup" button.

    Sending and recieving messages
    Enter your avatar name and your email address, and provide the same data as your pop3/smtp email account. If you are using an web based email (like hotmail, yahou ...), verify at first if you can use it with a standard pop3/smtp email browser (like Outlook, eudora ...)

    Auto-quit
    SL_POP3_IM has an auto quit feature. With this you can define a time when you would like to have it close. This can be useful for those that are using different computers during the day and dont want to forget to close the reader before leaving.

    Online Friends Status
    SL_POP3_IM can display the Online status of your contacts that are in your friendslist in Second Life®. It retrieves the information from the Second Life® web site each 10 minutes. But to make it work, you must login to the Second Life® Web Site first. Otherwise the status will never be displayed.

    Logging all messages
    By checking this option, all communication threads will be saved in the log folder (in your application folder). Each session is saved for each contact in a .rtf file.



    How to use SL_POP3_IM:

    Contact list
    The contact list is built automatically when you recieved a new message.

    Chat window
    When you click on a contact in the list, the chat window is displayed for this contact.

    Keep and save this contact
    You can chose to keep and save a contact or not, that means that only the checked contacts will be in your list at your next startup.

    Capture a contact
    You can also add or update a contact manually from the address of an email you have recieved before. for this use the Capture Contact buttons.

    Note: If the key of a manually captured contact is older than few days, it's possible that you can't reach this person, you will need an updated key or they will need contact you first.



    Skin

    SL_POP3_IM uses a background picture file (.bmp file). The menu buttons are simply defined as interactive zones. The icons of those button are simply on the background picture itself. So this is very easy to customise the look of the tool. The skin picture file is in the skin folder (in the application folder), it must be a file named: main_350x600.bmp
    You can replace it easily with any other .bmp file with the same name and same size. To install a new one, copy the .bmp file and override the actual one in the skin folder.
    You will also find there a photoshop template with the different clickable zones and components on a separate layer to let you design your own customized skin.

    Here you will find some others skins...

    moc_skin


    fractal01_skin


     
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    © Zeja Pyle, 2006-2012.