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[DBMail 0000284]: Feature Request: "IMAP V-Folders"
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The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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http://www.dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=284
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Reported By: Andrei_Pozolotin
Assigned To:
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Project: DBMail
Issue ID: 284
Category: General
Reproducibility: N/A
Severity: feature
Priority: normal
Status: new
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Date Submitted: 22-Nov-05 16:09 CET
Last Modified: 22-Nov-05 16:09 CET
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Summary: Feature Request: "IMAP V-Folders"
Description:
Please Read:
http://www.dbmail.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=v-folders
Full Text:
===Feature Request: "IMAP V-Folders"===
Keywords: virtual mail folders, server side filters
//Author: Andrei Pozolotin @ Nikitova LLC http://www.nikitova.com
2005-11-22//
SUMMARY:
- permit multiple [[dbmail_messages]] for different
[[dbmail_mailboxes]] for the same [[dbmail_physmessage]]
- permit server-side rules to create and manage [[dbmail_mailboxes]]
- permit server-side rules to automatically create multiple
[[dbmail_messages]] & "place" them to the appropriate
[[dbmail_mailboxes]]
CONTENTS:
- Problem
- Solution
- Proposal for DBMAIL
- Enhancements
- Examples
DETAILS:
===Problem:===
Consider a typical B2B email correspondence
Actors:
"Them":
Customer1
TheirPerson1 - project manager
TheirPerson2 - project team member
"Us":
OurCompany
OurPerson1 - project manager
OurPerson2 - project team member
OurPerson3 - project team member
Project1 - the project "we" are doing for "them",
and this protect has an email distribution group
"Project1.Customer1[at]... "
Typical Email Addressing:
A) from "them"
FROM: TheirPerson1[at]Customer1.com
TO: OurPerson1[at]OurCompany.com
CC: OurPerson2[at]OurCompany.com, TheirPerson2[at]Customer1.com,
Project1.Customer1[at]OurCompany.com
B) from "us"
FROM: OurPerson2[at]OurCompany.com
TO: TheirPerson1[at]Customer1.com
CC: OurPerson1[at]OurCompany.com, TheirPerson2[at]Customer1.com,
Project1.Customer1[at]OurCompany.com
C) "money talk" - email restricted to Project Managers only:
FROM: TheirPerson1[at]Customer1.com
TO: OurPerson1[at]OurCompany.com
CC: OurPerson10[at]OurCompany.com,
Managers.Project1.Customer1[at]OurCompany.com
PROBLEM: "EMAIL HELL"
- how automatically classify, store & share all this mail? for the
whole team?
- how to instantly & intuitively find mail - by person? - by project? -
by customer?
- how automatically enforce security? Project Managers should see all
email, but Team Members only a subset of it.
===Solution:===
This is how ideally an email message should be stored in IMAP:
A) unrestricted email from "them", team visible:
FROM: TheirPerson1[at]Customer1.com
TO: OurPerson1[at]OurCompany.com
CC: OurPerson2[at]OurCompany.com, TheirPerson2[at]Customer1.com,
Project1.Customer1[at]OurCompany.com
+Public_Folders
+Customers
+Customer1
+TheirPerson1
=> visible email copy
+Project1
=> visible email copy
B) unrestricted email from "us", team visible:
FROM: OurPerson2[at]OurCompany.com
TO: TheirPerson1[at]Customer1.com
CC: OurPerson1[at]OurCompany.com, TheirPerson2[at]Customer1.com,
Project1.Customer1[at]OurCompany.com
+Public_Folders
+Customers
+Customer1
+TheirPerson2
=> visible email copy
+Project1
=> visible email copy
C) email restricted to Project Managers only, team NOT visible:
FROM: TheirPerson1[at]Customer1.com
TO: OurPerson1[at]OurCompany.com
CC: OurPerson10[at]OurCompany.com,
Managers.Project1.Customer1[at]OurCompany.com
+Public_Folders
+Customers
+Customer1
+TheirPerson1
=> NO email visible copy here, NO.
+Project1
+Managers <= only Project Mangers have access to this
=> visible email copy
===Proposal for DBMAIL===
Development Context (as of 2005-11-22):
- DBMAIL already have "abstraction layers":
- essence: separation between [[dbmail_mailboxes]],
[[dbmail_messages]], [[dbmail_physmessage]], [[dbmail_messageblks]]
- description: [[er-model]]
- DBMAIL already have mailbox level security:
- [[dbmail_mailboxes]] [[dbmail_acl]]
- description: [[er-model]]
- DBMAIL is already considering server side parser:
- "Server-side filtering is probably the most efficient way of
dealing with your emails..."
- description: [[filer_table]]
- DMAIL is already considering even more "abstraction":
- "How about taking everything out of the message body and just keep
it as reference.."
- description: [[separate_msg_content]]
THE PROPOSAL:
- permit multiple [[dbmail_messages]] for different
[[dbmail_mailboxes]] for the same [[dbmail_physmessage]]
- permit server-side rules to create and manage [[dbmail_mailboxes]]
- permit server-side rules to automatically create multiple
[[dbmail_messages]] & "place" them to the appropriate
[[dbmail_mailboxes]]
===Enhancements===
- store message MD5 of original email for each [[dbmail_messageblks]]
to eliminate possible duplicate mails
- based on this MD5 automatically re-link [[dbmail_messageblks]] &
[[dbmail_messages]]
===EXAMPLE USES===
Folders for COMPANIES:
- if not already exist
- automatically create [[dbmail_mailboxes]] for a COMPANY - based on
Actor address, presence in FROM:/TO:/CC: fields:
- use email Customer1.com as folder UUID, but name folders like this:
Company Name (Customer1.com)
- inherit security from parent folders
TO: FirstName LastName (F.LastName[at]Customer1.com)
+Public_Folders
+Customers
+Company Name (Customer1.com)
Folders for PEOPLE:
- if not already exist
- automatically create [[dbmail_mailboxes]] based on Actor address,
presence in FROM:/TO:/CC: fields:
- use email F.LastName[at]Customer1.com as folder UUID, but name folders
like this FirstName LastName (F.LastName[at]Customer1.com)
- inherit security from parent folders
- example:
FROM: OurPerson2[at]OurCompany.com
TO: FirstName LastName (F.LastName[at]Customer1.com)
CC: OurPerson1[at]OurCompany.com, TheirPerson2[at]Customer1.com,
Project1.Customer1[at]OurCompany.com
+Public_Folders
+Customers
+Customer1 (Customer1.com)
+FirstName LastName (F.LastName[at]Customer1.com) <= newly
created folder
=> visible email copy
Folders for PROJECTS:
- emails send to addresses such as
Managers.Project1.Customer1[at]OurCompany.com
- automatically result if folders such as
+Public_Folders
+Customers
+Customer1
+Project1
+Managers <= newly created folder
=> visible email copy
- and email is not copied / duplicated elsewhere
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Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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22-Nov-05 16:09 Andrei_PozolotinNew Issue
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[DBMail 0000284]: Feature Request: "IMAP V-Folders"