Hi Jared,
I think this work would be an alternative to the Tbird plugin, not an
addition to Grant's 1.0 Desktop Work Queue. I can imagine lots of
scenarios where you might be away from your personal computer, but
want to get at emails you had flagged from the web UI or a web
widget. It's consistent with the bigger idea that routing all data
inputs and outputs through the Hub is our solution for maximizing the
# of user access points. If Chandler Desktop were instead a web app,
wouldn't Chandler Hub need to know about your email account info?
Not sure, but FWIW I think Facebook asks you to log into your Yahoo
Mail to get at all your contacts.
Mimi
On Feb 13, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:
It would be faster to implement however, I believe then the TB
plugin because the only missing piece in this case is adding the IMAP
client code to pull flagged messages into the hub.
There's additional work, such as finding a place to store IMAP auth
information.
I'm strongly against incorporating IMAP pulling directly into Cosmo
code.
If needed, it's a good candidate for an external daemon and service
that proxies between an IMAP server and a Cosmo server. Use any
implementation you'd like, including reusing python code from the
desktop.
But in general, I don't think any web-based service that asks users
to enter in their IMAP username/password can not be successful.
People are often willing to share information, but the vast
majority will not go so far as to put their email username/password
out onto the net. People are only comfortable doing this with a
desktop client.
I'm in favor of pretty much leaving things the way they are. The
level of work being discussed here seems way out of proportion with
what's effectively a renaming of "task" to "starred" and feels like
a poor allocation of available resources.
-- Jared
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