[chandler-users] Chandler and email

[Kent Tenney]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi Kent,
>
>  If you have your gmail set up as an IMAP email account, you can also
>  set up Chandler IMAP folders to help you to move messages from your
>  everyday email application to Chandler. You can set them up from the
>  Incoming Mail account dialog.

Cool. The dialog says:
"Note: only emails from Chandler will be downloaded"

I didn't understand that emails NOT sent from Chandler WOULD
be downloaded from my gmail account
if
they are labeled INBOX/Chandler Mail
and
I clicked on 'Configure' when setting up the account

I found I can confuse things by manually creating a label
INBOX/Chandler mail (lowercase _m_ail)
before I click on 'Configure' in the dialog
- renaming the label to INBOX/Chandler Mail
fixed things nicely.
( I filed https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11886)

So, the special account I mentioned before, the one to which I forward
posts which want managing now labels all incoming as INBOX/Chandler Mail
and I'm tickled.

>
>  Here's how to get set up if you aren't already: http://
>  lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-users/2007-November/
>  000829.html
>
>  We are also looking into adding support for downloading flagged
>  messages as well as messages from other Chandler Desktops - https://
>  bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11843

I don't need this at the moment because of (above), but
+1 to flexible methods of talking to the Chandlerbot.
curious, how would one create a 'flag' ?

, and a way to
>  forward messages to Chandler collections via your Chandler Hub
>  account - https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11873.

This is described as
Placeholder for work and tasks to be scoped out by Jared.

>
>  Are these the kinds of things you're looking for?

Yes!
I don't see the utility of gathering only from:Chandler, but since
it's easy to override that, I'm happy.

I really like the pattern of flagging/tagging/labeling an email as
"I want this to be managed by Chandler"
and having this work across mail accounts

>
>  Mimi
>
>
>
>
>  On Feb 21, 2008, at 6:53 AM, Kent Tenney wrote:
>
>  > Howdy,
>  >
>  > I see that Chandler only downloads email which was sent by Chandler.
>  >
>  > I see the value of limiting the messages which Chandler is concerned
>  > with, but I since Chandler won't become my email client, it's
>  > cumbersome
>  > to use it when I want to use email something into Chandler's
>  > management
>  > realm.
>  >
>  > Would it be possible to put a key in the subject or body which flagged
>  > Chandler to slurp a message? Or configure an account as 'fetch all' ?
>  >
>  > I use gmail, and have an account which I use as a repository of
>  > important
>  > stuff, the kind of things I want Chandler to help me with.
>  > The requirement that these messages _come from_ Chandler doesn't
>  > work for me.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Kent
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