On Feb 13, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
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.
Linked In does this as well.
-Brian
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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