[Chandler-dev] Re: Issue with stamping and Reply, Reply All, Forward

[Brian Kirsch]

That's fine.

I can add stamping after Alpha 4.

Thanks,
Brian



Sheila Mooney wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Mimi is not around so I will have to make a call on this. I suspect 
> that she would want to preserve the stampness of the original item 
> when you reply, reply all etc. This would be consistent with all the 
> editing and updating workflows. I might of course have this wrong :-).
>
> That being said, we don't have much time left for Alpha4 and I don't 
> know how difficult either of these options are. I would say that for 
> Alpha4 we should do whatever is easiest. If that means we don't 
> preserve the stampness of the item then that's ok and we can finish 
> that off in the next release.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Sheila
>
>
> On Sep 18, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Brian Kirsch wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> As I was going through the email Alpha 4 mock-ups I noticed there was 
>> no info on how to handle reply, reply all forward in the case where 
>> the Mail Message is also stamped as a task and / or event.
>>
>> Right now, I am creating a new MailMessage item on a reply, reply 
>> all, forward request. I then copy the pieces I need from the original 
>> message and populate additional values in the new MailMessage item as 
>> well.
>>
>> This works great and I have already checked in code that does the 
>> traditional reply, reply all, forward logic one would expect in a 
>> Mail Client.
>>
>> However, the stamping case needs to be addressed. What happens if a 
>> Mail Message that is also stamped as a Calendar Event is forwarded or 
>> replied to?
>>
>> Does the stampness of the original get copied to the new Mail Message 
>> or is it ignored?
>>
>> I could use some feedback on the desired approach from a design 
>> standpoint.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> --Brian Kirsch Internationalization Architect / Mail Service Engineer
>> Open Source Applications Foundation
>> 543 Howard Street 5th Floor
>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>> http://www.osafoundation.org
>>
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