*On Sunday, August 18, 2013 4:01:26 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:*
>
> *Why should web2py include mail storage? It looks more like an app to me
> than a core feature.*
>
Dear Massimo,
That is a great question, and let me try to make a case for that.
Currently w2p provides DAL abstraction to read IMAP and send emails using
SMTP, but *(as per what I understood from Alan Etkin — I may have
misunderstood as well)* it does not allow saving of Email as drafts.
If we imagine IMAP to be a DB for emails, then w2p DAL has the ability to
read the IMAP data (emails) but not write, save or append IMAP data
(drafts). That is like the ability to read data from an SQL-DB but not
having the ability to write to it. And that is a little bit limiting. Of
course, there have to be work-arounds for all that. But when there is read
and send, why not have save (write-append) too?
Please think about it. Composing of an email message can go in two main
directions:
1. Send » SMTP — this has been implemented
2. Save as Draft » IMAP — this option appears to be missing.
Send from Drafts » IMAP to SMTP — this can be done currently, but can the
draft itself be created?
If I have not understood anything properly, please do enlighten me. And if
you think that there is any merit to my case above, please consider it
favorably.
Thank you.
Regards,
PRACHI
.
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