[Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature = calender ?

[DINH Viêt Hoà]

On 5/24/07, Eric Rostetter <rostetter at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Marc Perkel <marc at perkel.com>:
>
> > Yes - with the ability to ise IMAP as a connection channel you could do
> > anything that Microsoft Exchange does and more. The idea is that you
> > can establish a connection between any server app and any client app.
>
> Yes, this is correct, and what some people are asking for.
>
> > Generally you would want it to be somewhat email related but it's wide
> > open and doesn't have to be.
>
> But managing this becomes more complex as you add more functions and
> the functions diverge from email in nature.
>
> > And what's wrong with unlimited
> > functionality?
>
> Nothing.  It is how you get there that matters.
>
> The problem of putting all your eggs in one basket is:
>
> 1) It doesn't scale well.
> 2) If you lose the basket, you loose all your eggs.
> 3) The basket becomes more complex to program, debug, audit, manage, document,
>     etc.
> 4) The basket _may_ become slower, consume greater resources, etc.
>
> > Keep in mind that one of the reasons people buy Exchange is because
> > Exchange does things that people want.
>
> And one of the reasons so many of them complain about Exchange is because
> it does most of them poorly, is hard to manage and maintain, and if it
> breaks you lose access to everything, not just to one thing.
>
> > A calendar is one of many
> > examples. But to start with I'm thinking more in terms of controlling
> > server side email settings.
>
> For which various protocols already exist...
>
> As already stated, unless this goes through some standards body, it
> probably won't be widely adopted or used...  So IMHO, the place to
> start would be with trying to define a standard and get support for
> it, rather than coding non-standards-based code that will only be
> adopted by a few...

choose a minimum set of things to do and implement them correctly.
"divide and conquer" paradigm often works well.

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DINH Viêt Hoà