[Design] Email options: email submission to collections

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Philippe,

Perhaps more important than the Chandler desktop user using email  
submissions as a way to get data into Chandler from other email  
clients...email submissions allows casual collaborators, to submit  
items to shared collections without having to use Chandler and/or go  
to Cosmo. Instead, they can collaborate with Chandler users (Hub,  
Coordinator, etc) from the comfort of their own email client.

Mimi

On Aug 3, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Jared Rhine wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I completely see how this option helps bridge  
>> the gap
>> for me and others.  If I publish an email address for my primary
>> collection(s), then I can use the "forward" mechanism of my client 
>> (s) to
>> enter items into Chandler.  Moreover, I can also use my server- 
>> side and
>> client-side filters to auto-submit certain kinds of items that  
>> enter my
>> world via email (1200 a day at last averaging) straight into  
>> Chandler.
>>
> Now that we cleared the scenarios being served by the feature, I  
> agree that this is an interesting idea. It also has the advantage   
> of working for any class of email server (POP and IMAP) and email  
> client (Web based or not). This generality is definitely a plus.  
> Also the impact on Chandler or Scooby is close to nil: there's no  
> email feature that becomes required as a consequence of endorsing  
> this solution.
>>> 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)
>>>
>>
>> That's the current consensus proposal that Mimi and I have both  
>> endorsed.
> Excellent!
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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