Objects can spam your email with offline messages even after being blocked.
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Angelina Sinclair
I was part of some RP sim a while ago and left but was still getting notifications from them. So I blocked the object. Only to realize months later it was still sending me emails and possibly affecting my offline message cap. I am not entirely sure, but maybe someone can take a quick look?
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I can reproduce this issue with server 2026-08-03.30838755483:
- Visit https://accounts.secondlife.com/change_email/ and ensure that "I would like to receive offline IMs via Email" is enabled
- Rez 2 objects, each containing the script shown below. The objects are named "llInstantMessage after delay - not blocked" and "llInstantMessage after delay - blocked"
default
{
touch_start(integer total_number)
{
float delay = 60;
string msg = "Sending instant message to " + (string)llGetOwner() + " "
+ (string)delay + " seconds after " + llGetTimestamp();
llInstantMessage(llGetOwner(), msg);
llSetText(msg, <1,1,1>, 1);
llSleep(delay);
llInstantMessage(llGetOwner(), "Test message sent at " + llGetTimestamp());
}
}
- Right click on "llInstantMessage after delay - blocked" and select "Manage -> Block" from the context menu
- Touch both objects, and confirm that initial IM from the script only comes from the "not blocked" object.
- Immediately log out
- After a few minutes, check your email
Expected results:
Ideally, the server would check the block list and not deliver the IM from the blocked object to the offline IM/email queeue. The user should only get the IM from the "not blocked" object as an offline IM email.
Actual results:
In (6), the user gets 2 offline IM emails, one from each object.
I suspect that this is a longstanding issue, that blocking has never impacted offline IMs from objects, but am having trouble finding previous bug reports about it.
AlettaMondragon Resident
Maestro Linden I've just reproduced this as well. I don't think it's an old issue, in the past I had many objects blocked that were supposed to send IMs regularly and I've never had this issue. I rarely block anything or anyone now, so I wouldn't notice this issue now, and it might have been a thing in some previous simulator versions, but definitely not for several years.
Maestro Linden
AlettaMondragon Resident: Okay, thanks for the feedback. This is the sort of bug that would be complained about loudly and frequently, so the lack of recent duplicate reports also suggests indicates this is a recent regression.