Friday, January 15, 2010

Cartlesham Post Office

Okay, so the admin interface has a section which clearly shows a record of all private messages and emails sent through the EE interface. But it can be turned off by toggling the “Log Email Console Messages” setting.

So I suppose I can use the EE interface to send secure messages to players, occasionally checking before and after I send anything that nobody’s turned the logging back on. (If I definitely check it when sending out the you-are-the-murderer type emails, the murderer can continue their plans by emailing me directly without any risk of compromise. I’ll set up a dedicated Gmail account to make sure I don’t lose anything in all my regular email.)

Does that sound like it should work?

posted by Kevan at 15 Jan 2010 12:18:21 UTC Comments (5)

Comments

Hix:

15-01-2010 15:04:14 UTC

Yes

tecslicer:

15-01-2010 15:39:12 UTC

‘sOK for

Qwazukee:

15-01-2010 16:57:51 UTC

imperial

redtara: they/them

16-01-2010 15:37:55 UTC

against I’d prefer plain email communication. There’re less things that could go wrong.

Kevan: he/him

16-01-2010 15:57:07 UTC

I’m talking about email conversation - the question is whether we should trust the EE “send an email to this user” button (which I think we can, now that I’ve found we can turn logging off).

Back in the Werewolf Dynasty, I had to ask everyone to email me and confirm in a BlogNomic comment that the email came from them (rather than someone faking their identity), which was a bit convoluted. If we can just use the EE buttons, life is easier.