[horde] E-Mail with filelink from Thunderbird

lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de
Tue Nov 18 20:31:54 UTC 2014


Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de:
>
>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Zitat von lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> the recent versions of Thunderbird have the possibility to not  
>>>> send bigger attachments within the mail, but to store the  
>>>> attachment on some "cloud" store and only sent the link, just  
>>>> like Horde/IMP Webmail can do. From what i can see WebDAV can be  
>>>> used  with Tunderbird so it might be useful to use Horde/IMP as  
>>>> the "cloud" storage from Thunderbird, no? Can this be done as of  
>>>> now or has this been considered to extend the IMP feature to be  
>>>> used with Thunderbird Mailclient?
>>>>
>>>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/filelink-large-attachments
>>>
>>> This doesn't make sense. If people use Thunderbird instead of IMP,  
>>> why should they use IMP's attachment storage instead of  
>>> Thunderbird's?
>>>
>>
>> There is no "Thunderbird" storage, the storage need to be provided  
>> be someone else. It does make sense that this is the E-Mail  
>> Provider which in turn might use Horde to provide E-Mail services.  
>> If you provide mail services with IMP your chances are high that  
>> you also have users which use Thunderbird either exclusively or  
>> side-by-side with IMP. So from a mail service provider view it does  
>> make sense IMHO.
>
> Ah, understood. Still no need to store this in IMP. Once the WebDAV  
> interface to Gollem is working again, users can simply point there.  
> Or to any other WebDAV server.

Sorry for being unclear. I meant to say "store the same way as IMP  
does" not "store in IMP". Of course WebDAV is the missing piece, but a  
automatic purge after some time would be useful of course.

Regards

Andreas





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