Mail

The **mail** system in Asterix and Friends has many uses. Obviously, you can communicate with other players via the mail. You also use the mail system to send gifts and for trades. Some people use the mail as extra storage. You will get notices from your guild chief when the guild levels up or if your rank is changed. Edifis will mail you when he needs help with the palace. All extra food that cannot be stored will go here. Also, legions defeated while you are offline will send the rewards to your mail.

## Changes

As of 4/11/2016, Sproing has announced changes to the mail system. Stemming from the error that changed the auto-deletion from 30 days to 700+ (confirmed) and the frequency of players requesting and/or demanding expired items to be replaced (assumed) , Sproing sent this message out to all players.

Please note the following:

* Mail time will be fixed soon, back to 30 days.
* All mail, except gift codes and purchases, will have an auto-delete timer now. This change includes mail from Asterix & Friends team.
* We will have a max of 3,000 messages (not pages, messages) in our inbox AND outbox.
* They are not closing the mail=extra inventory space loophole but they will NOT replace items lost out of the mail.

## Inbox

   When you open your mailbox, you will go to your inbox. The options across the top of the screen allow you to send a new blank message to someone, reply to the person that sent the mail you have selected, delete the mail you have selected, or to follow/unfollow the person that sent the mail you have selected. Notice only the first option doesn't deal with the person that sent the mail you have currently selected in your inbox.

While on the first page of the inbox, the blue down arrow at the bottom will take you to the 2nd page and so on. On any page except the first page, you will also have a blue up arrow to go back to previous pages. With Update 40, you can now quickly scroll through pages of your mail (just like the inventory) by dragging your mouse down to go to further pages and dragging your mouse up to go to previous pages. *It scrolls fast.*

## New Mail

A small red circle and number (up to +9) will show up over your mail icon on the main screen to alert you to new mail. Once inside the inbox, any unread mail will have a green dot on the far left side.

## Outbox

You can also view your outgoing mail from this window if you can't remember if you sent an item to someone.

## Deleting Mail

If you select a message and click the X at the top of the mail screen, it will permanently delete the message. Any attachments will go to your inventory and the mail will disappear. If your inventory (or food storage in the case of the attachment being food) is full, the item will not be sent to your inventory and the mail will not be deleted.

All mail sent by other users will automatically delete after 30 days. You cannot retrieve it when this happens. Each mail has a small banner along the bottom letting you know how long it has until it will auto-delete. The exception to this auto-delete is any mail sent by the Asterix and Friends mail system- level up rewards, compensation or redeem code packages, the most recent 20 brawling reports, etc. These kinds of mail can stay in your mailbox indefinitely. Even though legion defeats are system generated, they will auto-delete if you do not accept them. You can only store the most recent 100 legion defeats in the mailbox. Any of this type of mail of 101+ will auto-delete if even the time isn't up. Don't lose rewards this way.

This auto-delete works the same in the outbox as it does in the inbox.

Special note: While brawling reports do not auto-delete after 30 days, this message comes with an option to "watch the replay" of the fight since you were not actively involved in it. If you watch the replay, the message with then auto-delete at the finish of the replay. If you won an item but had not selected it yet, it will go into your inventory.

## Attachments Sent to You

Any mail sent with an item attached with have a small brown satchel under the time stamp. Open the mail and click "collect" to move the attached item to your inventory. If you do not have room in your inventory, you will not be able to collect the item until you make room. Once you've collected the item (but haven't deleted the message), the satchel will disappear. Alternatively, you can click the X at the top to delete the message and send all attached items to your inventory. If you cannot store all the items (typically, more food than your current food storage has room for), you will collect all that you can but the message will not delete and the remaining item (again, usually food) will remain attached to the message.

## Sending a New Message

If you select to send a new message, you will get a new mail message that will *require* you to fill in the player's name and a subject, while a message and sending an item are optional. As you type the player's name, a list of suggested users will show up under the bar. Sometimes the player you want will come up. Sometimes they won't. Pay attention to who you are sending mail to! Once you have selected a name and typed a subject (and optionally, type a message and/or attach an item), the "send" button will become active and you can click it to send the mail.

With the update in June, 2015, the mail system now allows for a gift and safe trade option. If you do not wish to enact the safe trade option, you do not need to click anything different than prior times.

As of Update 40, the "send" button for mail (seen in the right pictures at the bottom) is now placed at the top right beside the recipient and subject lines. The requirement to type something in the message box has been omitted now as well.

## Replying to Mail

When you select the arrow along the top, this will open a new mail message with the player's name already filled in. This player name will come directly from whatever message you had selected in your inbox or outbox. The subject box will also be prefilled with [RE: (subject from the original message)]. You can change this subject by clicking in the box if you want.

You can reply to direct mails from other players, brawl results mails as they come from the offensive player even though the mails are system generated, and legion defeat mails as (like with brawl results mails) they come from the player of which the legion was attacking even though the mails themselves are system generated. You cannot respond to system generated mails from the Asterix and Friends staff (regarding leveling up, compensation packages, redeem codes, etc.) or to guild-wide alerts concerning the guild leveling up. When these types of messages are selected, the reply button at the top will become grayed out.

## Sending Attachments to Others

*With the update in June, 2015, the potential for accidentally selling items that you are attempting to gift/trade to another player is virtually gone. If you click the blue box on the right side of the mail screen, all items come up as available to send to another player and the "sell" option is no longer there. If you start the **send** (formerly called "gift" as the left side picture shows) process from your inventory screen, you still must watch if you click "send" or "sell" as both options are available and there is no confirmation dialog.*

To attach an item to your message without enacting safe trade, you will click the blue box on the right. It will bring up your inventory and you will select the item you want to send.

Use the + and - buttons to get to the desired number of items. That is the first number in the #/# while the second number is how many you have in the stack you selected.

Then, click SEND to attach it to your mail message.

After you have attached your item, you MUST put something in the subject box before the option to SEND THE MESSAGE will be active at the top right of the screen. You can simply put a space in the subject box if you want. Most people like the subject to be labeled appropriately though. It makes finding things in the mail so much easier.

## Other Information

While typing a message, so long as you haven't clicked send at the bottom, you can copy the body of the message. Highlight the text and then used Ctrl+C to copy if you are using a PC. Once you have sent the message though, the ability to highlight text is gone. If you wish to send the same message to another player, you will have to type it all over again if you forgot to copy it before you sent the first one.

Currently there is no way to send a message to multiple players. If you wish to contact all of your guild members, you must send those messages one at a time.