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

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Ingo,

On Thursday 26 April 2007 10:39, Ingo Steuwer wrote:
>  Do we realy need client-side extensions for this?

What do you mean by "extensions" here?
Offline capabilities are a great feature of the Kolab Concept.
People would want it for projects and their documents as well.
So a concept should consider this for the future.

Smart Clients are also central in the Kolab philosphy, 
because they shift processing to the client
and make the server more scalable.

> I think no, all we wanted to have in the first place was a way to easily
> store mails and documents in one kind of folder. The great advanteage ist,
> that this is nearly IMAP-client independet.

Each IMAP email client can already save documents as attachments,
so technically this would be the first place to add a different interface 
to access them.

> The advantages of offline-Access are alway given if a mail client is
> available, not being able to change them offline through a file-system-like
> access is not a problem in my opinion (and may be implemented later).

My email was a brain-dump on the potential design issues.
It is a second question of what to do next.

An experiment to see if a webdav readonly access to email-attachments is 
suited to see where this design path leads to.
It could be done using Horde as Gunnar pointed out or something simpler
using high level languages and their rich libraries (e.g. Python email 
and imap modules).
This would be a prototype and not solve all use cases.

Bernhard

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