[horde] Fwd: Re: Interface design Horde 4.1/5.0

[Gunnar Wrobel]

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Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> schrieb:





"Jānis" <je at ktf.rtu.lv> schrieb:

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>Citējot Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>
>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:46:32 -0200:
>
>>> If I may suggest one functionality for the Horde from proprietary 
>>> software world - ability to change the attachment and save the 
>>> changed one with the letter (as Outlook does) - I did not met any 
>>> other product offering it and I must add, that it is very popular 
>>> among bureaucracy.
>>>
>>
>> I never saw this feature, maybe that's why I don't get it. I don't 
>> understand why would that be different from saving the att. in your 
>> disk, altering it, and then attaching it again to a reply...
>
>that's the point - one does not send anything to anyone, just changes 
>the attachment and stores changes to attachment within original email. 

I'm not certain that this is a good solution for the use case you describe. 

Of course it makes sense to keep track of attachments received.

But I wonder if you should really use the IMAP storage for the file management. Why not rather extract the attachment into a file manager such as gollem while retaining a link back to the original message (+ potential other attributes). This would allow real file management and stuff like webdav access.

I guess there would be other solutions as well.

In any case I don't consider this to be a very common use case. This sounds like something that might only happen if someone contracts us to implement this.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
>If the original message is digitally signed, after such operation 
>digital signature is removed from the message.
>
>Storing attachment to the disk i find especially boring as an average 
>bureaucrat usually deals with hundreds if not thousands of attached 
>documents (I saw such collections of other colleagues) and often it is 
>
>important to keep the track from where the document originated. For 
>that purposes I find Outlook outstanding and without competition.
>
>Janis
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