just my 2 cents.... responding to posts from Sheila Mooney, and Jared Rhine (extracted below)...
- I personally have never used an IMAP server... POP/SMTP has been fine for me... I expect Chandler will make IMAP much more beneficial to me.. in the future - I do not know what a "Hosted Service-provided email account" is, and would probably love it if I knew what it was.. (LOL).. but... my guess is that most users do not need this. - I do think that eventual interface with HotMail. YahooMail, and other Webmail services is a plus, or maybe even a necessity. - RSS is a power-user feature.. and yes more and more people are realizing the benefits of RSS, but I do not see it as important to the vast majority of users... not for a while anyway. If these features are not in the feature set of Chandler 1.0, I would not be disappointed, nor concerned... again, just "mis dos centavos". Dennis Lynch
Sheila Mooney wrote: Some options for bridging the gap between the desktop and existing email clients that have came up so far are... + Emailing items to a collection on Cosmo ie: Send a /Event to [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Drag and drop emails and attachments from other email clients. + Pull down emails that have special headers. + Handle a one-time import of an Inbox + Subscribe / Sync to select IMAP folder(s) ie: Inbox, manage design list in the desktop. + The desktop as an IMAP client + The desktop as an IMAP server + RSS in and RSS out via desktop/web access
On 8/2/06, Jared Rhine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do we envision the specifics of that account? Many users no doubt will have a personal email account from an ISP which provides IMAP access and will wish to use that. I fall into this camp (where I'm the ISP). Are there parameters around what sort of accounts we wish to support? I know there's some history around the issue of "which IMAP servers we support". Concerns about full-scale integration with the variety of IMAP servers out there helped scale back our desktop email client plans for Beta. But Chandler does some IMAP today, including most everything needed to talk to a wide range of servers. Will we just publish a list of servers we've had reports of successful integration? There's also been some discussion that perhaps the Hosted Service should provide email accounts for people. It's not an unreasonable idea, though it's not obviously a must-have either. Could we discuss at this point more about the scenarios envisioned where Hosted Service-provided email accounts provide a Beta should-have kind of value?
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