Hi Philippe,
You raise some very good points.
I believe there is also a third option proposed which was adding an
extension to Thunderbird to allow
stamping of email as tasks and calendar events.
Although this is similiar to point 2 you list below my understanding is
this third option would not leverage Cosmo at all
and would instead send the information directly to a running Chandler on
the same computer via the IMAP protocol or
XML-RPC.
See the rest of my comments below.
Philippe Bossut wrote:
Hi,
I'm following this thread since several days and I completely lost
track of how this option ("email submission to collections") is
supposed to solve the initial problem laid out by Sheila, i.e.
"bridging the gap between the desktop and existing email clients". So
I went back through the threads and the only scenarios I found were
about sending email to Cosmo from a non-Chandler/non-Scooby client
(that was Katie's message from 7/13). Actually, that the only way this
option can help to, indeed, "bridge the gap".
However, in the course of this thread, it seems that we are now
assuming that some UI is required in the email client (to handle the
complexity of building the [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses and forwarding messages
in the appropriate way) which, I think, kills the idea completely. At
times, it even seems like we assume that Chandler or Scooby are
sending those emails... Or did I misunderstood?
In any case, since the emails must be sent by some 3rd party client to
have any value in "bridging the gap", I think we need to:
1- keep the address/subject scheme very simple so that users can do it
themselves (i.e. forward to their calendar address and doctor the
subject line by hand)
or
+1 this must be simple enough for user to quickly type and send with no
aid from software.
2- develop extensions for a chosen subset of clients to make this
"forward to cosmo" option workable
Which of these 2 options are we going after now with the current
proposal?
See my comments at the beginning of the email.
Cheers,
- Philippe
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