Star Wars Galaxies: Sony Releases: SWG Mail Purge

Coming Mail Purge

We are making changes to the in-game email system to greatly improve its speed and stability. Mail that is older than 6 months and mail that is longer than 4096 characters will be deleted from your mailbox soon. Please use the /mailsave command to save any email you want to keep.

In-game, simply type:

/mailsave

After you enter the command, the computer will prompt you to wait for a moment while it saves the mail to your hard drive. When it is complete, it will give you a message in your chat window that notifies you what directory the mail has been saved to. Then, later on, you can access the mail by using the explorer to browse to the following sample directory:

C:Program FilesStarWarsGalaxiesprofilesstation namecharacternameservermail_charactername

Inside the last folder will be all of your mail saved as a *.mail file.

If you have never opened a *.mail file, your computer will ask you to find a program to open the file with after you double-click the file. You can use a text notepad to read the files.

Also note that in the same window, there will be a checkbox asking you if you ALWAYS want to open the mail files with a notepad or other type text program. If you choose, "yes", you will be able to double-click on any mail in your mail directory to open it with your notepad. If you choose "no", you will have to browse for the application to open the mail file each time you double click on the file.