[Design] Re: Bridging the gap - email options

[Dennis Lynch]

just my 2 cents.... responding to posts from Sheila Mooney, and Jared
Rhine (extracted below)...

- I personally have never used an IMAP server... POP/SMTP has been
fine for me... I expect Chandler will make IMAP much more beneficial
to me.. in the future

- I do not know what a "Hosted Service-provided email account" is, and
would probably love it if I knew what it was.. (LOL).. but... my guess
is that most users do not need this.

- I do think that eventual interface with HotMail. YahooMail, and
other Webmail services is a plus, or maybe even a necessity.

- RSS is a power-user feature.. and yes more and more people are
realizing the benefits of RSS, but I do not see it as important to the
vast majority of users... not for a while anyway.

If these features are not in the feature set of Chandler 1.0, I would
not be disappointed, nor concerned... again, just "mis dos centavos".

Dennis Lynch

> Sheila Mooney wrote:
> Some options for bridging the gap between the desktop and existing email
> clients that have came up so far are...
>
> + Emailing items to a collection on Cosmo ie: Send a /Event to
> officecalendar at cosmo.osafoundation.org
> + Drag and drop emails and attachments from other email clients.
> + Pull down emails that have special headers.
> + Handle a one-time import of an Inbox
> + Subscribe / Sync to select IMAP folder(s) ie: Inbox, manage design
> list in the desktop.
> + The desktop as an IMAP client
> + The desktop as an IMAP server
> + RSS in and RSS out via desktop/web access
>

On 8/2/06, Jared Rhine <jared at wordzoo.com> wrote:
> How do we envision the specifics of that account?  Many users no doubt will
> have a personal email account from an ISP which provides IMAP access and
> will wish to use that.  I fall into this camp (where I'm the ISP).  Are
> there parameters around what sort of accounts we wish to support?
>
> I know there's some history around the issue of "which IMAP servers we
> support".  Concerns about full-scale integration with the variety of IMAP
> servers out there helped scale back our desktop email client plans for Beta.
>  But Chandler does some IMAP today, including most everything needed to talk
> to a wide range of servers.  Will we just publish a list of servers we've
> had reports of successful integration?
>
> There's also been some discussion that perhaps the Hosted Service should
> provide email accounts for people.  It's not an unreasonable idea, though
> it's not obviously a must-have either.  Could we discuss at this point more
> about the scenarios envisioned where Hosted Service-provided email accounts
> provide a Beta should-have kind of value?
>