[Design] Email options: email submission to collections

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Philippe,
You raise some very good points.

I believe there is also a third option proposed which was adding an 
extension to Thunderbird to allow
stamping of email as tasks and calendar events.

Although this is similiar to point 2 you list below my understanding is 
this third option would not leverage Cosmo at all
and would instead send the information directly to a running Chandler on 
the same computer via the IMAP protocol or
XML-RPC.

See the rest of my comments below.



Philippe Bossut wrote:

> 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

+1 this must be simple enough for user to quickly type and send with no 
aid from software.

> 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?

See my comments at the beginning of the email.

>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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