[Proposal] Goals for Item-Sharing vis-a-vis: Re: [Last call] Re: [Chandler-dev] Shipping ticketed-URLs around for individual items via email

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Grant,

> We could also register an attachment type, so that opening the 
> attachment would launch Chandler. It might even be possible to "embed" 
> the attachment in a reasonable way in, say, html mail. Unfortunately, 
> opening random attachments in email has gotten a bad name nowadays ...

Yeah.  I think this might be the way to go.  We'd need to expose the 
attachment, which means all Chandler emails (not just events) would 
always have an attachment, which bugs some people.  But on the whole, I 
think this works the best.

>> Not sure I'm following...Why would this be unreliable? Meaning, people 
>> might file replies out of their Inbox?
> 
> I think Jeffrey is saying it would greatly increase the amount of 
> traffic Chandler would generate to talk to IMAP servers, which would 
> make fetching mail susceptible to network failures, etc. And, because of 
> inconsistent server implementations, it might not work at all.

Heh, I actually was thinking that if you file messages out of your 
Inbox, there's a good chance grabbing a thread will fall on its face. 
That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, just that we shouldn't overbill 
the feature (when/if we get to it).

There's also the performance issue, though.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey