[Kolab-devel] share documents in IMAP-folders in a filesystem-like manner

[Ingo Steuwer]

Hello

I recently discussed this feature request with Bernhard Reiter who pointed me 
to kolab-devel for more comments.

We'd like to have a document and e-mail share, which would allow to 
access/save emails and documents (files like office-documents, pdf, CAD and 
so on) in one storage. 

The idea is to store thoese documents as mail-attachements in IMAP folders. 
This would allow an access whith all IMAP-clients and an integration in 
existing Kolab-servers.

What would be needed further is a platform-independed filesystem-mapping which 
should allow to open or modify at least the attached file from Windows an 
Linux. Possible solutions would be to implement an mapping for example as 
samba-VFS-plugin or to provide some WebDAV-Compliant access to IMAP-folders. 

As alternative it may be possible to implement the opposite, let cyrus offer 
existing WebDAV-ressources as shared IMAP-folders (I don't know if there 
exists something like a plugin-interface in cyrus?).

What are your opinios/ideas about this, do you know existing solutions (I 
didn't found some so far), how do you think about the possible 
implementations?

Regards
Ingo Steuwer


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