[Design] Email in Chandler

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Oren,

Your description of  server-side filters certainly gives us some  
options. Even if it's not universal, there is a set of users out  
there who could use Chandler for email even before we support  
filtering in the UI.

Just to clarify: the scenarios described on this page are for 1.0.

Mimi

On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Oren Sreebny wrote:

> Mimi and folks:
>
> Though most clients include filtering, if you're living in an IMAP  
> world it's always seemed more reasonable to me to do your filtering  
> on the IMAP server. Here at UW, we've implemented a web-based  
> filter interface that allows folks to do server-side filtering. I  
> don't know if that's common, but if it is, you could save yourself  
> a lot of effort by not supporting filters on the client.
>
> One thing that is really important in our environment is support  
> for LOTS of imap folders - it's not uncommon for folks to have  
> collections with hundreds of folders. That implies not doing things  
> like scanning all of the folders for new messages, but allowing the  
> user to specify which folders she wants scanned.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what  "Chandler does NOT replace your  
> existing email client for reading and writing emails" means - is  
> that merely a "what can we realistically get done in a 1.0  
> release", or a statement of long-term direction? I believe that our  
> constituencies are looking to specifically replace their existing  
> email client with an integrated client that does all the good  
> things mentioned in the first bullet point along with email.
>
> Cheers -
>
> - Oren
>
> On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
>> EmailDiscussion20060120
>>
>> Here are notes from an ad-hoc design meeting last week on  
>> *options* for our high-level strategy for email in Chandler 1.0.
>>
>> + How will people use email in Chandler?
>> + What scenarios will it be useful for?
>> + What workflows will we support?
>>
>> Mimi
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