Thread: Default names when composing in-game mail

When I send a mail to someone in-game, there is predictive text for the name and it suggests certain possible recipients. These are not just kinship, friends and people I have written to before, so I wonder, on what basis are those names chosen??

Are you certain they're not in one of those groups? Those are the only people I've *ever* seen come up as suggested names, aside from alts on the same account (those names also show up). I haven't heard of anyone getting random people showing up there, but perhaps someone else has.

Originally Posted by Goldfur

When I send a mail to someone in-game, there is predictive text for the name and it suggests certain possible recipients. These are not just kinship, friends and people I have written to before, so I wonder, on what basis are those names chosen??

I think it's likely you are seeing inactive characters from your kinship, often people leave or create characters that they abandon but don't delete and are thus unfamiliar.

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Kinship only. My friend (to whom I often mail extra mats) moved the toon to another kin and now I have to type in the full name.
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Originally Posted by Urwendil

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Kinship only. My friend (to whom I often mail extra mats) moved the toon to another kin and now I have to type in the full name.
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Is that actual character on your friends list? Not just one of their characters, but the one by that name? If so, it should show up as a suggested name to mail to. (I've switched kins and had friends switch kins on me, and I've never had a problem - if they're on the friends list, they still show up. If your friends don't, it might be a bug).

The names come from 3 sources:

• 1) Your other Characters on the same Account
  2) Friends list
  3) Kinmates

That's it.

(So if you have multiple accounts, you have to add the "other" alts to each account's Friends list.)

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Originally Posted by Kiena

Is that actual character on your friends list? Not just one of their characters, but the one by that name? If so, it should show up as a suggested name to mail to. (I've switched kins and had friends switch kins on me, and I've never had a problem - if they're on the friends list, they still show up. If your friends don't, it might be a bug).

His main must be on my friend list but not the particular alt.

Thanks C-Hound for the sum up.
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Originally Posted by C-Hound

The names come from 3 sources:

• 1) Your other Characters on the same Account
  2) Friends list
  3) Kinmates

That's it.

(So if you have multiple accounts, you have to add the "other" alts to each account's Friends list.)

Not sure about at present, but in past #1 used to not be true. I had to add alts on same account to friends list for mailing purposes.

Originally Posted by Cakellene

Not sure about at present, but in past #1 used to not be true. I had to add alts on same account to friends list for mailing purposes.

You don't have to do that anymore. Your alts are now on the autocomplete list.

Originally Posted by Shukar

You don't have to do that anymore. Your alts are now on the autocomplete list.

Which is an extremely helpful feature, IMO; I'd say 99% of my emails are to send crafting materials to my other alts.

Originally Posted by Finduilas88

Which is an extremely helpful feature, IMO; I'd say 99% of my emails are to send crafting materials to my other alts.

I did that, but Turbine prevents me from sending mail when I mail more than 5 people in succession, never mind that they're all alts on same account. I ended up buying shared storage to get around that annoyance and save on mailing fees, not to mention the annoyance of mailing and retrieving one item at a time.

Originally Posted by Cakellene

I did that, but Turbine prevents me from sending mail when I mail more than 5 people in succession, never mind that they're all alts on same account. I ended up buying shared storage to get around that annoyance and save on mailing fees, not to mention the annoyance of mailing and retrieving one item at a time.

Hmm, I've never run into that limitation before...is that mailing to 5 *different* alts? I've certainly sent more than 5 emails at a time, but I only have 5 alts ATM.

I use shared storage as well, but there are many places without vault/shared storage access that *do* have a mailbox, being able to mail items to clear out inventory is very useful.

Originally Posted by Cakellene

I did that, but Turbine prevents me from sending mail when I mail more than 5 people in succession, never mind that they're all alts on same account...

For FTP (and to a much lesser extent Premium), multiple-mailing has limitations if you're trying to mail to diff recipients.

I found that if you're spamming multiple mails to the same alt (your own, someone else's, whatever), you can send as many as fast as you want. BUT, when you choose a diff alt, you have to wait a bit - sometimes up to 10-30 seconds.

So, send in waves, all mails to the same alt in succession, then to the next, and so on, taking your time between changes of recipient.