[Dev] Re: [Design] Chandler as an email client? Another idea...

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Mimi Yin wrote:

> I believe Lisa may be referring to the one-item in multiple locations data 
> model incompatibility.

So what ? To IMAP it'd just look like the item is in one location, even though 
it isn't.

I find Morgen's idea very intriguing....

Its benefit is not the IMAP part, it's the workaround-the-lack-of-UI part. 
Being able to stuff chandler with my email data, yet 'do email' from whatever 
email client I choose is an exact fit for me for the time being.

I'd argue that implementing the right email UI is considerably harder than 
doing what Morgen suggests, especially given that our focus still is going to 
be elsewhere for 0.7.

Why not extend Morgen's idea to IRC ? I'd love to be able to have IRC go 
through Chandler so that I can later search IRC logs, yet use Colloquy until 
Chandler gets an IRC UI. Likewise with RSS ? etc.... ?

Basically, I interpret Morgen's idea as making Chandler a proxy for all sorts 
of data that Chandler can index, log, serve and even render ... at times.

It would make Chandler much more useful beyond a calendar much sooner since 
implementing these proxies is vastly easier than the UI to render all these 
kinds of data.

Andi..

>
> On Jan 13, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Morgen Sagen wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Jan 13, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>> 
>>> I believe there are far easier ways of getting the exact features, and 
>>> definitely the benefits, of what you suggest - without doing something so 
>>> unaesthetic (and incompatible with our data model) as an IMAP server.
>>> 
>>> Lisa
>> 
>> Does your email client speak some other protocol, Lisa?  :-)  I don't see 
>> what's incompatible here.  We're already stamping emails as tasks.  This is 
>> essentially another way to do that.
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