Denied Deleting certain messages from /mail

+1, make /mail great again!

 

+1

So as not to clutter everything with anything spam-like.

 

How would this work? Would you do /mail clear (username) to delete all the mail from that specific player?

 

It would have to be this way, unless the mail inbox was arranged so that it had numbers of order, so you could delete the mail number you wanted.
Ex.
[1][ZevZero]: Whats up
[2][BuilderName]: Gimme money

/mail delete 2

 

Yeah, but it should also kinda not clash with the timestamp.

 

How would it clash with the timestamp?

 

Or

[Timestamp] [Username] [Message] & /mail delete [timestamp]

(e.g. 11/7/2016 Stolio: Hey Dude How Ya Been?)
11/10/16 RandomBuilder: GIVE ME MONEY)
/mail delete 11/10/16

 

Yes please

 

To show the timestamp while not colliding with it, it could be something like this:

Code:

/mail read
[1][2016-04-13][Someone]: Whats up
[2][2016-08-23][RandomBeggar]: Gimme money
[3][2016-08-23][SomeoneElse]: Hey there
/mail delete 2

 

Yeah I was just thinking it would be too much money, but this formatting is nice, except you should reverse dates.
E.g. [23-08-2016]

 

or just [23 aug 2016] so it's viable internationally.

 

I prefer numbers. (British date ordering)

 

The problem with the DD/MM/YYYY format (in which the separator is "/", by the way) is that it is often ambiguous with the American MM/DD/YYYY (how do you tell whether 12/11/2016 is the 12th of November or the 11th of December?) while, on the other end, the ISO 8601 date format is not ambiguous and easily distinguished due to the "-" separator. And on top of that, it's Big Endian, which makes much more sense.

 

I find it logical to put the smallest item first, since Days < Months < Years.

Same applies. How do I know 2016-11-12 is the 12th of November, not the 11th of December?

 

Maybe separate the time stamp so that it is not as crowded in the chat

Code:

/mail read
[1] Someone: I love you
[2] SomeoneElse: Freedom from oppression
[3] RandomBuilder: Gimme money

/mail time 1
[1] [04 Nov 2016] Someone: I love you

/mail delete 2
Deleted mail from SomeoneElse received at 03 Nov 2016

/mail read
[1] Someone: I love you
[2] RandomBuilder: Gimme money

 

I don't think it would make sense to delete mail by the timestamp. Either number messages so that they can be individually deleted, or delete all mail from a certain player by using /mail clear (player).

 

Actually I answered to both of your remarks even before you made them: did you open the links?

 

I like this, because sometimes people come by and mail me crap I didn't even need to know and I need to look at my important mail reminders without seeing a clutter of random.

I like that idea, to organize and file mail into different, readable sections. How would you delete a specific message from the mail at that day(such as, what command)? /mail delete 03 Nov 2016 2 or /mail delete 2 03 Nov 2016

 

The mail would be sorted by time received (as it is now), but not per day. That way you could delete what ever mail you wanted. I don't know a situation where you would want to delete mail received 03 Aug 2016 and you wouldn't know the number. If more explanation is necessary, please let me know