[imp] Bastardized use of IMP/Courier IMAP as online file server ???

[Mike Grommet]

Your approach seems reasonable, however I think for your case, you'd
actually spend less effort coding a user interface in PHP that just happens
to connect to Cyrus instead of trying to rip all the undesired functionality
out of IMP / HORDE.

Just my 2 cents worth...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian" <brian-imp@wo.rldwi.de>
To: <imp@lists.horde.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:05 PM
Subject: [imp] Bastardized use of IMP/Courier IMAP as online file server ???


> Consider the following theoretical scenario:
> I run a club with about 100 members.  The members make payments to the
club
> and also occassionally receive payments.  Each member needs to receive a
> monthly statement of their account at the club; this statement must
> remain private.
> I don't want to send the statements out by snail mail and I also do not
> want to send them out by email, say, because either not all members of the
> club regularly access their email, some may not have email addresses or
> I can't be bothered with trying to keep up to date with changes to their
> email addresses.
>
> Now, consider the following possible solution:
> I set up a Courier IMAP server and each club member gets an email account.
> Each month I email each individual club member his or her statement to
their
> address on my IMAP server under their address: member_name@mydomain.com. I
also
> set up horde and imp to provide web access to these accounts and supply
each
> club member with their password.
> HOWEVER, I do not want the club users to think that I am essentially
supplying
> them with an email service. I would like them to think of it as a file
server
> where their monthly statements are stored and can be accessed online. I
would
> therefore remove all references to "Compose new message", address books,
> delete messages and I would also restrict who could send email to these
> club member accounts. I would also like to configure IMP, such that when
> a user clicks on a message title to view it, IMP doesn't open the email,
but
> instead opens the first attachment to the email using the relevant mime
driver
> and the user gets to see a pdf version of their statement.
> I also envisage using the folder structure of IMAP to supply each user
with
> other types of information related to the club and their membership.
>
> My questions:
> 1. Surely, there a much simpler way to achieve the same effect - perhaps
with a
> completely different open source application?
> 2. If I do go ahead with an IMP / IMAP solution, do you have any tips on
> things I should be aware of: possible pitfalls, shortcomings in the
> solution, etc.?
>
> Thanks in advance for your alternative suggestions or thoughts and
opinions.
> Regards
> Brian
>
>
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