Scid Help: Email window

# The Email window

Scids email manager window provides a way for you to manage correspondence chess games played by email. If you do not play email chess, this will be of no interest to you. But if you play correspondence chess by email, you can send your email messages directly from Scid!

To use the email manager:

- 1) Create the game(s) for your opponent in the database.
- 2) In the email manager window, select Add and enter your opponents details: name, email address, and the game numbers in the database.
- 3) Select Send email in the email window each time you have added moves to the game(s) and want to send a message.

When you send an email message, Scid generates the message with the games in PGN format without any comments, annotations or variations, since you would not usually want your opponent to see your analysis. You can edit the message before sending it to add conditional moves or other text.

For each opponent, you may have any number of games; one or two is most common. Note that Scid does not check if game numbers change, so after setting up the details of your opponents, be careful to avoid deleting games or sorting your database of email games, since this will rearrange games and the game numbers for each opponent will be incorrect.

### Limitations

Scid does not have any capability to check your email folder yet, so you still need to add your opponents moves to the games manually.

### Configuration

A copy of each email message sent by Scid is stored in the file ~/.scid/scidmail.log. If you want them to be stored in a different file, you will need to edit the file tcl/start.tcl and recompile Scid.

Scid can send email messages using an SMTP server or sendmail. User the Settings button in the Email Manager to specify which you want to use.

Scid stores the opponent details for a database in a file with the same name as the database and the suffix ".sem".

(Updated: Scid 3.0, November 2001)