Remember as Mimi has said, in Chandler we want to think of email as a verb not a noun. It is just one method of communicating with others.
One of the basic features of Chandler is to take an item of any Kind and using the built-in email send that Item (as differentiated from sharing a collection) on to another Chandler user(s) and to non-Chandler users as well. Having Chandler keep track of what I sent to whom and when I sent it, as well as managing any replies I think is a base functionality. On the flip side, I hope we will be able to use email as a method to add information that can be managed within Chandler. I frequently email myself stuff that I want to act upon or archive. I've done this for years. I used to do this in Outlook, then Thunderbird, and now Gmail. I use this method both when at my own computer, and also when I'm elswhere. It would be nice, but not necessary to use Chandler as my principal email client, but even if that's not the case, I should be able to have my Chandler (or perhaps my account on Cosmo with access via Scooby) as a target to receive emailed content. Pieter On 7/13/06, Katie Capps Parlante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ted Leung wrote: > Unless the email that got sucked in to > the IMAP server/proxy was deeply integrated into Chandler (which it > won't be if we don't have basic composition, reply, etc), then I don't > think I would use it. For me the value of e-mail in Chandler is not > every bell and whistle I can think of (and I can think of a lot), but > it's the integration with the workflow and knowledge management > capabilities. I'm assuming we'll have *basic* composition and reply -- we have very very basic features now, enough that Pieter sends announcements from Chandler, and Philippe has experimented with email in Chandler. Brian Kirsch will do some of this basic work in the next desktop alpha or two (reply, forward, etc.) Another avenue of inquiry that Mimi has mentioned: what's the littlest bit of email features that we could put up with for people like Ted, Pieter and Philippe to use it, given the integration benefits? Philippe had some good insights into what it would require for him to use it, perhaps he'll chime in when he's back from vacation. ;) Cheers, Katie _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
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