[Design] Stamping and Date/Time Parsing

[Mimi Yin]

In writing the Email spec, in particular the current proposal for  
special Chandler IMAP folders, we've realized we should amend the  
Stamping spec to generalize some of the behavior we're expecting for  
email.

When users add email to the Chandler Events IMAP folder to add the  
email to their Chandler calendar, Chandler will automatically parse  
any date/time information in the email upon pulling down the email  
from the server into Chandler.

Similarly, if an user receives an email in Chandler via special  
Chandler headers or POP mail and decides to Stamp that message to add  
it to their calendar, Chandler should also automatically parse any  
date/time information in the message.

This behavior should apply to any kind of item that is being added to  
the calendar, not just messages, which means Notes and Tasks.

Is this a lot of extra work? Or is it marginally more effort if  
bkirsch is already going implement automagic date/time parsing for  
stamping email?

Mimi