I want to set up a competition in the forums, but it all rather depends on how much information etc the pmail system is able to take.

I basically want people to give me a list of answers and do it all in one fell swoop. So, is it possible to get, say, 50 lines in a single pmail - or will it fail?
I have tried sending large messages before and some have failed.

it will fail, you will get nowhere near 50 lines. I dont know exactly but you would be lucky to get 10,

I have had lots of messages fail and they weren't what I would call long.

Looking through my Pmail, I have nothing longer than 5 lines...so I think that may be the limit.

Cheers - ok then; any suggestions how I can have people send me a list of answers without them appearing in the forum? I don't want real emails involved, obviously.

Are they more than 1 word answers, the easiset way to test would be to pmail yourself the answers in various formats,

like

@spikeyboy answer,answer,a longer answer,an even longer answer

That way you should be ok, but if you test it youself and it works, you can post the answer format in the forum, or maybe a nice techie will hook you up a response form on a webpage, like someone did for star in Sheep

If you cant find anyone who offers to do that for you I will do it for you, I will just have the script email you the response form.

Craig

They would be one word or a couple of words, so I'll give the self-mailing idea a go. Cheers!

The limit is 500 characters... there isn't any specific reason for this, but I'm going to ask that we put in some kind of check that at least tells you when you've exceeded it.

I've been using the word count function in Open Office...
;)

a nice little countdown from 500 would be cool, like the web texts for SMS

Exactly, salmontickler. I've asked that be put in with all messaging functions for the next release.

I fully support this idea. Writing stories into Pmail is incredibly difficult, the slightest misjudge in character length means the sentence doesn't get sent... and I've noticed sometimes it doesn't tell me it didn't send.
I'm too lazy to check word length with an external program...
Also, Free bacon to the Dev's for there hard work. We're an appreciative bunch, and you guys are crazy busy.
Also, Dib's on testing .5
You know I called it. :P

lol you missed out on dibs by about a month.

Dangit! I really don't like you sir!

Edit: Although, If you tell me how awesome it is, I'll find you more to my liking once more.