Mailbox

Mailbox in Progressbar 95 plus

**Mailbox** is an in-game virtual mail system in a form of a minigame that was added in 0.7240. It is available on Progressbar 95 plus and onwards, all server systems, BAR/X, BarOS 9 onward, H@ckgresh and B OS. You have to reply to messages, remove messages which are considered spam, et cetera. These are slow and optional side activities, just like when the player takes care of Bin or interacts with Idle Network computers. You have to interact with mails to get bonuses, or if not, you just ignore them.

## List of Messages

* Welcome
* Boss
* Prince Clippy
* ?????
* Spam
* IT
* Progressbar minigame
* Dog
* Mailer Daemon
* Happy holidays!
* PROGRESSDATA
* PBAY
This is the first mail that the player gets. It appears every time the game is started except on 25th December 2022. In this email, Spooky House Studios and Icoeye introduce you to the Mailbox.

 Hi, dear player!
Hope you are doing well!
This is your virtual in-game mailbox. You'll receive various messages and decide if they are important and need to be replied, ignored or removed as a email spam. You may get some bonuses by making correct decisions.
Have a great day
 **Available replies:** | * Thank you!
* When is the next update coming?

If the player replies with the second option, they will receive the following message:

 soon

The boss may send the player a few emails asking if they are playing Progressbar95 (basically slacking off) or **actually** working on a project (presumably for work).

### "Are you working?" mail

 Hey!
Are you working on the project or playing Progressbar95?
Best wishes,
 **Available replies:** | * I'm working on the project. Will be ready soon
* I'm playing Progressbar95

If you choose the first option, you will receive the "How soon?" mail.

If you choose the second option, you will receive the "Progressbar95 is good!" mail.

### "Progressbar95 is good!" mail

 Hey!
Wow! Progressbar95 is a good game! I like it as well.
Here is a bonus for you: 100 points!
Best wishes,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* Thank you!

If you reply "Thank you!" you will receive the "You will be the best!" mail.

### "You will be the best!" mail

 Hey!
Great! You will be my best employee soon!
Best wishes,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* The project is almost ready! I'll send you a preview by tomorrow

If you choose the second option, you will receive the "How soon?" mail.

### "How is the project doing?" mail

 Hi, there!
How is the current project doing? We need it ASAP!
Best wishes,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* I'm working on the project. Will be ready soon

If you choose the second option, you will receive the "How soon?" mail.

### Mails coming after replying "Go away!"

#### "Show respect!" mail

This message appears whenever the player replies to the boss "Go away!".

 Hey! Show some respect! I'm your boss!
Best wishes,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* Excuse me!

You will not receive anything else if you click the second option. However, if you reply with "Go away!" again, you will receive the following message:

#### "How dare you!!!" mail

 How dare you!!! I'm your BOSS!
Do you want to be fired?
Have a nice day,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* Excuse me!

Again, you will not receive anything else if you reply with "Excuse me!", but if you click the first option, you will receive the following:

#### "You're FIRED!!!" mail

 Hello!
Hope you are doing fine.

I would like to inform you that YOU ARE FIRED!!!
Have a wonderful day,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* Excuse me!

This time, replying will not have any effect.

### "How soon?" mail

 Hey!
How soon? I need to know exactly!
Have a wonderful day,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* The project is almost ready! I'll send you a preview by tomorrow

If you choose the second option, you will receive the "Great job!" mail.

### "Great job!" mail

 Great job!
You'll get a bonus +1000 points
Have a wonderful day,
Boss

You can't reply to this email.

### "We have a inessential project!" mail

 Hi!
I'm your boss. I know that you like your work very much. Would you like to work nights and weekends for about an year? We have a very inessential project to complete!
Best wishes,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* I'm playing Progressbar95

If you choose the second option, you will receive the "Progressbar95 is good!" mail.

### "Urgent!" mails

The Boss may send one out of two mails asking the player about things related to computers.

#### "What does IT means???" mail

In this mail, Boss asks the player what IT means.

 Hi!
I have an urgent question! What does IT means???
Boss,
 **Available replies:** | * Internet Things
* Interesting Thoughts
* Information Technology

While IT actually stands for "Information Technology", the correct answer to the mail is random every time. If the player gives the correct answer, they will receive 250 points.

#### "Do we need RAM or memory?" mail

In this mail, Boss asks the player if the computers need more RAM or memory. It doesn't necessarily have to appear after the first "Urgent!" message.

 Hi!
Do we need more RAM or more memory in our computers?
Boss,
 **Available replies:** | * Memory
* RAM
* Both

The correct answer is random each time, and replying with the correct option will give the player 250 points. Memory and RAM are the same somehow.

### "Here is a bonus!" mail

This email message appears right after you reply correctly to one of the "Urgent!" messages.

 Great!
Here is a bonus for my favorite employee!
Boss,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* Thank you!

If you reply "Thank you!" you will receive the "You will be the best!" mail.

### "You may get the points" mail

In this email, Clippy will send the player an offer to give him 2000 points for 5000 points. If you give him the points you will either be scammed and not get any points in return, or you will get those promised 5000 points.

 Dear friend,
My name is Clippy the Third. I'm a Prince of Progressbaria. I have deposited 10 000 points. I need your help to obtain the points, but I don't want to reveal my identity. You may get 50% of the points. To unlock them, please, send me 2000 of your points first.
Yours sincerely,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* Send your points to prince

### "I’m a fake prince!" mail

If the player chooses "Send your points", but however ends up getting scammed, the following message appears:

 Haha!
I'm a fake Prince! I lied to you! I took your points! Never trust strangers on the Internet!
Yours sincerely,
 **Available replies:** | * You are a fraud!
* Give me back my points!

The player can reply, but it won't have any effect (other than receiving a message from the Mailer Daemon), or remove the message as spam.

### "You are very lucky!" mail

There is a very small chance that the player will get 5000 points. If you don't get scammed at the while, the following message appears:

 You are very lucky! I'm a real Prince! Most of such messages are fakes, but this one was real.
I've sent you 5000 points!
Don't try this again! Never trust strangers on the Internet!
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Clippy III, a real Prince of Progressbaria

The player cannot reply to this message. Also, you can't get the bonus until after you have played a level.In these emails, you will get sent a lot of "?" signs. This is a reference to when computers notice a mail is corrupted and instead show question marks on every character, except for punctuation.

### First message

This is the first message that the unknown person sends.

 **Available replies:** | * ????
* ??

### Second message

This message appears if the player responds with "??" to the first message.

 **Available replies:** | * ??
* ??????

### "Incorrect" message

The "incorrect" message appears if the player responds with "????" to the first message or with "??????" to the second message.

 **Available replies:** | * ???
* ?? ????

Responding with either of these two responses causes the first message to appear in the mailbox after some time.

### Final message

This message appears if the player responds with "??" to the second message.

 **Available replies:** | * ?? ????
* ?? ??? ?

Essentially, to get the bonus 500 points, you have to reply with "??" twice. Responding to this message with either of these two responses causes the first message to appear in the mailbox after some time.In these emails, the player will get sent some random messages. Replying to any of these messages will cause the mail to be re-released instantly, so they should be removed as spam.

### "This is very annoying!" mail

This email has a simple but annoying spam message.

 Hello!
This is a very annoying spam message!
 **Available replies:** | * You are a spammer!
* Stop sending email spam!

### "Email spam…" mail

This email has a poem about spam emails.

 **Available replies:** | * I don’t like email spam!
* Stop sending email spam!

### "PBSYSTEM-21" mail

Instead of Spammer who sends it, a fake person named Gary Spammer tells the player about the PBSYSTEM-21 lineup of computers. Although not being based on software, it, somehow, could be based on the Infor System21 ERP software.

 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* You are a spammer!

### "Sales!" mail

 **Available replies:** | * Stop sending email spam!
* Go away!

In this email, someone from the IT asks the player if he has been experiencing crashes.

### "Turn it off and on?" mail

 Hi!
We know that your system crashes from time to time.
Have you tried turning it Off and On again?
Don't bother us,
 **Available replies:** | * Yes
* No

### "Tell us if that helped." message

If you reply to the first message, you will get another message after a while:

 Hi!
Turn it Off and On and then tell us if that helped.
Don't bother us,
 **Available replies:** | * No
* Yes

Responding with either of these options will cause IT to resend the first message, implying that the message is likely to be spam. In this case, you should delete the message - use the "Remove" button, not "Spam".In this email, you will be asked if you would like to play a mail version of Progressbar95.

 Hi!
Let's play a mail version of Progressbar.
Your objective is to collect 100% of [Progress] messages and get a final bonus.
Reply to this message to start
 **Available replies:** | * Start game
* Cancel

If the player replies with "Cancel", the message goes away completely. If the player replies the message with "Start game", the minigame starts.

The progressbar starts at 0% and a new mail will pop-up every once in a while with a red or blue segment. If a blue segment appears, choose "Catch this segment" and the progressbar will fill 10%. If a red segment appears, choose "Shy away from the segment".

Example mail which can appear during the minigame:

 [Blue]
This is your progress
60%
 **Available replies:** | * Catch this segment
* Shy away from the segment

If you get 100% blue segments, you will get this message which gives you 2000 bonus points. The replies won't have any effect.

 **Available replies:** | * Thank you!
* Cancel

Otherwise, if you catch a red segment, you will get this message and start over from 0%, assuming you press "Start game", as the same two options from the first email appear.

 **Available replies:** | * Start game
* Cancel

In this email, the Dog writes to the player that if they ask him politely, they will receive bonus points from him.

 Dear friend,
My name is Dog. I'm a good character from the game Progressbar95. If you ask politely, I'll give you a bonus.
Yours sincerely,
 **Available replies:** | * Go away!
* Would you be so kind to give me a bonus?

Replying with "Would you be so kind to give me a bonus?" will give the player a bonus of 500 points and the following email:

 Dear friend,
Here is your bonus! I love you!
Yours sincerely,
 **Available replies:** | * Thank you!
* I love you!

There are two options to reply to this, but neither of them will have any effect whatsoever.When replying to the fake Prince Clippy mail, then the player will receive a message from the Mailer Daemon notifying them that the reply could not be sent.

 I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients

You can't reply to this email.This is the first message the player receives every time the game is launched. So far, it has only appeared instead of the usual "Welcome to mailbox" message on December 25, 2022. In this email, SHS and Icoeye wish the player a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. You will also receive 1000 bonus points.

 Dear player!
Wishing you happiness, peace, fun and a lot of progress in the coming year!
Merry winter holidays!
Icoeye and Spooky House Studios

You can't reply to this email.This mail appears when the player finishes playing the ProgressData Refinement Department event for the day. There are 2 different messages that the player can get, depending on whether the player manages to find the good numbers or not. You cannot reply to either of these emails.

### Win

 ::THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE::
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOOD NUMBERS
SHARE THEM WITH OTHER USERS
GET YOUR BONUS AFTER A GAME
BE HAPPY!
::END OF THE MESSAGE::
///PROGRESSDATA REFINEMENT DEPARTMENT

### Lose

 ::THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE::
NO GOOD NUMBERS!
DON'T BE SAD, BE PRODUCTIVE!
TERMINAL HAS BEEN BLOCKED
STATUS: UNKNOWN 3
::END OF THE MESSAGE::
///PROGRESSDATA REFINEMENT DEPARTMENT

The player receives this email after buying a hardware component via the Pbay website.

 Dear player
Thank you for the purchase!
<name of the purchased product>
Pbay team

## Trivia

* If you attempt to mark a non-spam message as spam, you will receive a warning message saying: "That was not a spam message!".
* If there are 17 messages or more, you will receive an error saying: "Your inbox is full! Please remove some messages".
* Starting from version 0.9420, if you are using a system that uses the first era of the Progressnet and you are not dialed up, you will get a message saying: "You are not connected to the Progressnet".
* By clicking the paperclip icon next to the attachment, Clippy will appear saying: "That is my little baby!". The paperclip will then say "I love you!", and then they slide up to the top of the screen. This can be only done in all Progressbar systems, all server systems and the PC version of B OS. You have to wait until the Clippies disappear before you do something else.
	+ If the message is closed and reopened without replying to or removing it, then the paperclip will re-appear.
	+ In the PC version of B OS, it is harder to get this secret, since the paperclip is invisible.
* Responding to a message from "Gary Spammer" causes a regular spam message to appear instead.
* Starting from version 0.9270, sender profile pictures were added. They appear if you are using Progressbar 81, Progressbar Server 2081, BarOS 10.III or over.
* The Mailbox "stamp" icons in BarOS 1x systems feature a bat from the Spooky House Studios logo.
	+ In BarOS 11 to 14, you can see a circle stamp.
	+ In BarOS 10 and 10.II, you can see the text "Post".
	+ The background of the icon changes depending on the system you are running. It usually matches one of the default wallpapers in the system. In pre-releases of 1.01, in BarOS 14, the background inside the stamp is transparent.

* In B OS, Mailbox is renamed to "-B mail".

## Gallery

### Progressbar

Progressbar 95 plusProgressbar NOT 4.0 and NOT 4.0 ServerProgressbar 98Progressbar Meme to Nepbar and 2000 ServerProgressbar WhisperProgressbar XBProgressbar Server 2002Progressbar LargehornProgressbar Wista and 7Progressbar Server 2005Progressbar Server 2007Progressbar 81Progressbar Server 2081Progressbar 10Progressbar Server 2011Progressbar 1X and 11Progressbar Server 201XProgressbar Server 2021Progressbar 11.22Progressbar Server 2023
### BarOS

BAR/XBarOS 9BarOS 10 and H@ckgreshBarOS 10.IIBarOS 10.IIIBarOS 11 and 12BarOS 13BarOS 14
### Icons

* Mailbox
* Mail
* File
* Attachment