[Multi-chat-enduser-chat] Re: chat mail

[Adam I. <OZ_...@au...>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:27, Druss wrote:
> Adam,
> To be honest I cant think of anything that Alamak doesnt already have in
> its cmail that is needed. Having folders would be good, as you could move
> important stuff like addresses and phone numbers to a folder instead of
> deleting them. Just make sure your cmail has an option to delete specific
> cmails. Alamak has that /mail - command which deletes all your cmails when
> you really only want to delete a couple from the list.
>
> Thanks,
> Druss.

with alamak, you can '/mail - 6' to delete cmail number 6, so it is there.
it's just like so many other things on alamak, not well known, lack of 
documentation and information and such.

what I'll be aiming for from the start will be for it to be ready to include 
real email, which means I'll want to be able to have folders, filters (emails 
from this person go to this folder, emails from this domain go to trash, that 
sort of thing), searching your mail, hopefully at a later stage some email 
security/encryption/signing, possibly spell check and attachments.

later on I will also have an interface (possibly somewhat like hotmail or 
yahoo mail) so that you don't have to log into the chat to do mail, though 
stuff like that isn't a high priority yet.
but being able to do all those real email things means I'll have the features 
and have to prepare for them now, to save having to make radical changes if I 
hadn't considered it

depending on how viable it is, I may have some more advanced features such as 
message threading, pop mail, etc, at a later date, I'll have to look into it.

having a dual mail system, email and cmail will make it a bit more complicated 
to set up, but my having it designed to work that way from the start saves 
major changes at a later date.

I know I should really have put a bit more info in my plans in the previous 
email, so people know what I'm aiming at.

hopefully I've addressed the issues there, if not, hopefully someone can 
prompt me for filling it all in.

cheers, adam.

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