I am convinced. Thanks Prachi. I believe Alan is on the case. On Sunday, 18 August 2013 15:32:13 UTC-5, PRACHI VAKHARIA wrote: > > > > *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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