Eve Tools: Eve Mail

12Sep08

Eve Mail is a great tool and one that I’ve started using more and more so I thought I’d write a little bit about it.

Like many pod pilots I like to keep my planet-side life separate from my time in a capsule. Eve-mail lets me do this by separating out space-faring communications out from the more mundane day to day business of life in New Eden or any other galaxy. For a completely negligible fee of 0.01 ISK Lake will set you up with a customised e-mail address using your CONCORD authorised handle, for example wensley@eve-mail.net. I now use mine for all business when I’m not in my pod. You can check this e-mail using almost any interface from web mail to POP and IMAP servers. Brilliant!

It gets better than this, though, because Eve Mail also provides access to a Jabber server so you can chat to other pod pilots even when you aren’t wired into your capsules. There’s even an automated postmaster that will answer queries such as checking your wallet’s balance and skill training progress updates. There are more advanced options for corporations that would allow you to send out-of-pod updates to pilots such as juicy targets or calls to arms for defence (or attack) operations.

So, even when I’m on shore leave I can still have my finger on the pulse and receive important (and trivial) updates about what’s going on up there in space.

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