[Kolab-devel] distributionlists testing

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> Hi Mike,
>
> On Friday 25 April 2008 00:04, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> @bernhard: a kolab distlist is for sending mail, but as a groupware,  
>> kolab should be able to manage contact details beyond email usage  
>> scenarios. imagine the following situation: you use your kolab client  
>> as an address management tool. you take part in some sort of event and  
>> want to create an address list with all participants in the event, but  
>> you do not have everyone's email address. albeit, you want to create  
>> the complete distlist, print it out, take it to the next event meeting  
>> and ask for address list completion.
>
> when designing it, I believe we looked at a few specific use cases that we 
> wanted to solve first. (I was _not_ the lead designer, only the coordinator 
> on this.) This is a good approach as we needed to get some basic things done.
>
> Of course there are many other use cases, which are not covered by this model.
> Especially if you look at the possibilities modern CRM offer. Like I would 
> want a few company addresses and locations and make contacts members of this.
> So far there is no model in Kolab to fullfil these criteria. And we probably 
> would need a full cycle to come up with something that addreses theses 
> questions _and_ keeps the current design philosphy of security.
>
> This leans towards a new "local" group concept instead an improved "local 
> distribution list".

I also believe it would be best to clearly separate the two
concepts. Question is if this is possible with the existing clients.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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