[Design] Parsing emails for date/time information

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Darshana,
We are going to go with a foldering approach to stamping. This allows a 
user to drag a mail message in to an IMAP folder and automatically have 
it stamped as the appropriate type.

This functionality can then be extended for POP users via the Chandler 
IMAP server parcel and eventually for web mail users as well.

More info is available here:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/UnifiedDataInAndOutProposal


With this approach the stampness of a message is determined by the 
user's choice of IMAP folder (Tasks, Events, etc).

The date parsing logic is certainly needed to parse Event emails for 
instance and determine the duration of the event.


-Brian


Darshana Chhajed wrote:
> Hi,
> For my next project, I am thinking of parsing emails for date/time 
> information and stamping them as events if such information is found . 
> I have written a wiki about the ideas I have about the project.
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ParsingEmailsProposal
> I would like to know your opinion and suggestions for the project. 
> More ideas are also welcome :).
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Bye,
> Darshana
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