Email Features Discussion

This page was formerly a list of issues pertaining to the email portion of Projects. Now the EmailService page is the primary gateway to email issues; this area is now mostly for brainstorming and describing individual features.

Key Base Features

• MessageRetrieval - with POP or IMAP
• HTML messages^? - viewing and (limited) composition of HTML messages
• ContactsAndEmailIntegration^?
• EmailAddressAutoCompletion^?
• EmailTemplates -- canned response text
• Email style sheets^? e.g. canned email formats
• MultipleEmailAccounts -- issues related to managing multiple accounts
• SpellingChecker
• ImportingEmailDataAndSettings^?
• EmailFilters
• AntiSpam
• NewMessageAlerts
• IWantToSpam
• SentMail

Key Advanced Features

• EditingReceivedEmail -- perhaps done with annotations, perhaps disallowed
• MailingListManagement -- digest decomposition, etc
• ReturnReceipts^?
• AutoResponders^?
• BounceManagement -- BkD - 13 Feb 2003
• AttachmentHandling -- BkD - 18 Feb 2003
• ForcingViewFormats -- BkD - 21 Feb 2003
• Corpuses -- BkD - 05 Mar 2003

See also SecurityIssues.

Contributors

-- DuckySherwood - 10 Dec 2002

Backed out a change DennisLynch made to put "canned formats" under EmailTemplates. There's language issues here, and I'm planning to use "templates" to mean the text, the content and use "style sheets" to mean the format, the presentation.

-- DuckySherwood OSAF - 27 Feb 2003