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SWG Mail Manager is an offline Mail-Browser for your SWG-Mails that have been saved with the /mailsave-command. You can sort your mails by adresser, title and date, copy and move Mail-Files to diffrent directories and delete them.

I wrote this little tool because I had problems with this Email-bug that will not let you read your mails if you have too much of them. So i saved all my mails with the /mailsave-command and deleted them ingame with the /emptyMail-command. Now i was faced with the next problem. I had more than 1700 Files with cryptic names, no other way to see who was the addresser or what was the title unless opening every single file. My solution was this tool.

You can download the current version at http://smm.sicknoise.de/

Have fun!
Skigmo

5 Stars!

Thanks

What i forgot to say: Please tell me if you find any Bugs or have any feature-wishes or suggestions.
I had this tool in testing for about one week, but you never know...

OMG, you rock. Its really funny how only a third party can come up with utilities that are helpful to the users. The originating first party either doesn't have time or doesn't think we find some things of any importance.

Even if they did eventually think it was a good idea, they'd have to assign a committee, have multiple meetings and conferences, hire a new team, (or reassign the already working ones) and eventually someone will make the decision to fix the village text when you convert your experience and you "loose" it. Lol.

Wokka-wokka

Damn, I did know this will make me some more work.

Since this is the first Windows-program I ever made I only can guess what the problem could be. If you pls could answer the following questions I might be able to isolate the bug and fix it.

-Do you have a copy of SWG on this computer installed?

-If yes, can you pls check if there is a Registry-Key at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/App Paths/StarWarsGalaxies/Path" holding your SWG-Installation-Directory?

(To open the Registry: Start->Execute->regedit)

-Does your Windows-User-Account have administrative rights? On first startup the tool generates it's own Registry-Key to save the last used Mail-Folder-Path. Maybe this is not permitted if your account only is a "Guest-Account".

-Does a window open and ask you for your Mail-Directory before it crashes or do you get the error right after execution?

-Did you change any of the *.mail-Files? I know the program will crash if any of the *.mail-Files is not in the correct format. This issue I will fix soon.

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Irama wrote:
Damn, I did know this will make me some more work.

Since this is the first Windows-program I ever made I only can guess what the problem could be. If you pls could answer the following questions I might be able to isolate the bug and fix it.

-Do you have a copy of SWG on this computer installed?

Yes

-If yes, can you pls check if there is a Registry-Key at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/App Paths/StarWarsGalaxies/Path" holding your SWG-Installation-Directory?

Yes there is a entry:

Name Type Data

Path REG_SZ C:\Program Files\StarWarsGalaxies

(I installed to the default directory)

(To open the Registry: Start->Execute->regedit)

-Does your Windows-User-Account have administrative rights? On first startup the tool generates it's own Registry-Key to save the last used Mail-Folder-Path. Maybe this is not permitted if your account only is a "Guest-Account".

Yes, the account has administrative rights. Searching the registry for "SWG Mail Manager" returns two entries:

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1645522239-1614895754-725345543-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Programs\SWG Mail Manager]

(default/REG_SZ/value not set)

and

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWG Mail Manager_is1]
"Inno Setup: Setup Version"="4.2.7"
"Inno Setup: App Path"="C:\\Program Files\\SWG Mail Manager"
"InstallLocation"="C:\\Program Files\\SWG Mail Manager\\"
"Inno Setup: Icon Group"="SWG Mail Manager"
"Inno Setup: User"="*****"
"Inno Setup: Selected Tasks"=""
"Inno Setup: Deselected Tasks"="desktopicon,quicklaunchicon"
"DisplayName"="SWG Mail Manager 1.1"
"UninstallString"="\"C:\\Program Files\\SWG Mail Manager\\unins000.exe\""
"QuietUninstallString"="\"C:\\Program Files\\SWG Mail Manager\\unins000.exe\" /SILENT"
"Publisher"="Skigmo Irama, Chimaera"
"URLInfoAbout"="http://smm.sicknoise.de"
"HelpLink"="http://smm.sicknoise.de"
"URLUpdateInfo"="http://smm.sicknoise.de"
"NoModify"=dword:00000001
"NoRepair"=dword:00000001

-Does a window open and ask you for your Mail-Directory before it crashes or do you get the error right after execution?

I get the error right after execution.

-Did you change any of the *.mail-Files? I know the program will crash if any of the *.mail-Files is not in the correct format. This issue I will fix soon.

I double checked and none of my mail files are changed. I'm guessing the doesn't matter in my case since I've not chosen the mail folder though.

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Hope this helps in troubleshooting...Just let me know if you need any other information.

Thanks, I think I have an idea what the problem is. The funny thing is that it if that is the problem it shouldn't work on every computer, except mine.

I will fix that right after I got something in my stomach.

I fixed that thing and hope that was what the crash caused on your computer. I guess/hope it will now work for all of you.

Thanks a lot for your info. You are really helping me to make it a better (or even working ) tool.
I see the problem. Didn't know the comma is handled as a separator in files too. Will fix that as soon as possible.

To your points for the wishlist:

A) There will be filters in future versions.

C) It's on my personal wishlist too. I was thinking a lot of how to solve this. It's a bit tricky since I'm not allowed to modify the .mail-Files because of compatibility with other tools that use these files. But it will definitely come in future versions too.

B) I think you are asking for a tool that already exists. There is a program called Merchant's Friend coded by Illiya Darklight. I think it should match all your merchant's needs.

The comma-bug is fixed. Thanks again for the info.