Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Super Speedy Mail!



 Hey guys, I just made a short video tutorial for ya'll :) Hope you enjoy!

Transcript:

Hey there, This is Tella from Hit The Cap!
This is a short tutorial on how to have "Super Speedy Mail".
First of all, you need to download and install the addon Called 'Postal' it can be found on Curse.com or Wowinterface.com
Once you have it installed, Go to My Computer > C Drive > Program Files > WOW > Interface > Addons > Postal > .lua file
Open it in a Notepad. Go to OpenSpeed you will see its currently set to 0.50. If you run with low latency, like I do, go ahead and set it to 0.10. If you have high latency, try a bit higher, like 0.30 or until you stop getting errors. Now save the file and go ahead and close it.

Restart your WOW and make sure you have Postal enabled.
The next step is to make a quick Redload UI macro. Just go into your macro window, name and icon it with w/e you want and in the command line type ' /reload ' and now put it on your bars.

Go to your mailbox, Hit Postal's Open all button. As you can see, i'm receiving mail super fast and it's freaking awesome! Wait for it to be done, then hit your new macro, wait a few seconds for it to load up, mine isn't usually this slow, just laggin a bit due to fraps.. Now your mailbox is refreshed and ready to hit open all again!   

The mailbox is one of the most annoying and time consuming parts of Auction Housing, hopefully this trick will reduce the time you spend getting mail significantly! And if you're Alliance, you can combine this trick with the Stormwind AH trick found on my blog!


Edit - I received this Postal tip in an e-mail, however I believe I found the original source:
Where else but JMTC? lol

29 comments:

  1. Thanks,
    Postal works very much faster with this trick.

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  2. wow this trick looks great. exactly what i needed. will be trying it out as soon as eu realms are back online x

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  3. Your voice is to die for! You sound very attractive ;)

    Postal actually has a setting in game to change the speed but it will only go to as fast as .30 which suffices my connection just perfectly.

    Hope to listen to more vids by you soon, I just started checkin out the blog and am very impressed.

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  4. A nice trick but I prefer just using an addon that automatically checks for more mails about every 10 seconds and open them automatically with postal instead of reloading the entire UI. I will see if I can find a link to it. But I had never known that you could speed up the opening speed, thanks for the tip.

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  5. You really should give credit when you lift tricks.

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  6. Thank you, keep up the GREAT work

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  7. Here's the link to the add-on that refreshes the mailbox for you. Definitely an easier way than reloading your entire UI all the time - for add-on junkies like me that takes awhile! This add-on lets you open the mailbox, choose which type of mail you want to get (using Postal) and then go afk.

    http://20kleveling.com/JMTCforum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1403

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  8. Mailopener by Zerotorescue is indeed awesome, I use it alot when I want to AFK and recieve mail. However, it does open them slower for me than /reloading my ui and thats whole point of this Vid.. super fast mail.

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  9. As for "lifting tricks" I received this tip about Postal in an e-mail, I didn't know it was already on JMTC. However, I cited them if that who you are referring to, If not, let me know and I will update it. I always try to cite my references in my posts, credit is given where credit is due.

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  10. Wow that's awesome! I'm going to try this as soon as I get home. Thanks Tella! I usually have around 30-35ms latency so it should be good. Can you set the open speed even lower?

    To Belsebub: Using Postal is good for refreshing your mailbox every 10 seconds but if you have a fast computer and are in a lagfree zone (anywhere other then Dalaran) then reloading is much faster. I can reload my ui in under 2 seconds and continue to loot the mailbox. Postal is good for afk looting though. If I'm looking to loot fast, there isn't a faster option then /reload though.

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  11. Hey Jeff, I honestly have not tried below 0.10.
    Let me know how it turns out and if your comp goes BOOM! lol j/k ;)

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  12. Very nice thanks!! <3

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  13. I'll give it a shot and see what happens! If I mysteriously disappear then you can expect the worst!

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  14. Nice video, you sound like you were about to laugh at the end there =p

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  15. Hi, I'm Ice from the JMTC forums. Enjoy your blog, check it regularly. I'm no addon expert, but I figured I'd look into it since I play with less than 20 ms. Sometimes in Stormwind you will get all 50 mails in 5 seconds with a .05/.1 setting, but at other times it can take 15 (still not bad). For best results, it's recommended to use Exodar, though I stick with Stormwind for the AH trick.

    I have to credit the JMTC forum for it's wealth of information. I learned both the AH trick and found Zero's Mail Opener addon there. The Mail Opener functions well with this addon because it tends to "clean up" any errors that might occur from a super fast setting. It's also nice as a fallback when I know I have to go AFK. I recommend using both.

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  16. Oh and your new layout is awesome btw. Best looking blog out there.

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  17. Turn off all addons except Postal and QA2. Reloads in 3 seconds. Great tip, even though I still get errors occasionally those are easy enough to clear and cuts loading / post time in half.

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  18. Awesome awesome awesome trick!!!

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  19. Hello.

    I've got a question. When you clicked "Open All" - it started opening and stopped with 2 mails not open. It wasn't intentional, right? Because if it wasn't - I think I have same bug and wanted to ask if you maybe know how to fix it:)

    Vaeryn

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  20. Vaeryn -
    Sometimes Postal will take the glyph from an auction cancelled message however the mail will stay up there. It can happen with a bit of lag, or if you close your mail while it's in the opening process.
    To fix it just delete the offending mails :)

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  21. I understand the speedy mail opening modification to Postal, but what does the Reload got to do with it?

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  22. @Tyberiuss
    You can only view 50 mails per minute or so. However, if you reloadui this delay is completely removed.

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  23. Is anyone experiecning problem, after implementing latest patch, that when you click Alt+Tab while opening mailbox, mails won't open?

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  24. @Anonymous: This is a new implementation on Blizzard's part for a lot of addons. To avoid this you can play windowed + maximized.

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  25. Tella are you hot? Cause you sound HAWT!!!

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  26. Found your blog from JMTC. Awesome stuff so far. Don't worry about the spoons feeding thing. I like reading what goes on in a real auctioneer's head.

    And I'd hate to raid with you.

    Cos you'll sound very attractive on vent. Your boyfriend's a lucky bloke. :)

    fiqeh.

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  27. When the mail is all read use /reloadui this will quicken up the mail as well!!!

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