[Design] Re: MailTags

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Mimi,
See comments inline.

Thanks,
Brian

On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Cool forwarding to design list.
>
> For those of you are familiar with or have tried Mail Tags, they've  
> release a Beta of V.2 which offers better interoperability with  
> people who don't use Mail Tags. You can also now send and receive  
> email with Mail Tags amongst users using Mail Tags. Tags are also  
> kept up-to-date across Mail Tag users and non-Mail Tag users.

This looks like a very cool product.
>
> If I understand this correctly, this is a little askew of what  
> we're doing for Preview. But it makes me wonder if we can 'Update'  
> people's email in their 'normal' email clients with X-Mail Tags.

It certainly would be possible. But what percentage of our target  
users will be working with MailTags? I would suspect that number is  
very low since as far as I can tell it only works with Apple Mail.app.

Perhaps this would make a good intern / summer of code project.


>
> The 'Coordinate your metadata in your workgroup' sounds close to  
> sending emails between Chandler clients with special Chandler headers.
>
> Mimi
>
> On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Ashkan Soltani wrote:
>
>> Thought you'd be interested in this...
>>
>>   http://www.indev.ca/MT2Beta.html
>>
>> Conceptually somewhat similar to the Chandlar IMAP interface.
>>
>> -a
>>
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