[Design] Email options: email submission to collections

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

I'm following this thread since several days and I completely lost track 
of how this option ("email submission to collections") is supposed to 
solve the initial problem laid out by Sheila, i.e. "bridging the gap 
between the desktop and existing email clients". So I went back through 
the threads and the only scenarios I found were about sending email to 
Cosmo from a non-Chandler/non-Scooby client (that was Katie's message 
from 7/13). Actually, that the only way this option can help to, indeed, 
"bridge the gap".

However, in the course of this thread, it seems that we are now assuming 
that some UI is required in the email client (to handle the complexity 
of building the LHS at RHS addresses and forwarding messages in the 
appropriate way) which, I think, kills the idea completely. At times, it 
even seems like we assume that Chandler or Scooby are sending those 
emails... Or did I  misunderstood?

In any case, since the emails must be sent by some 3rd party client to 
have any value in "bridging the gap", I think we need to:
1- keep the address/subject scheme very simple so that users can do it 
themselves (i.e. forward to their calendar address and doctor the 
subject line by hand)
or
2- develop extensions for a chosen subset of clients to make this 
"forward to cosmo" option workable

Which of these 2 options are we going after now with the current proposal?

Cheers,
- Philippe