[daisy] E-mail rendering

[Karel Vervaeke]

Hi again ;-)

Yes, perhaps my previous mail was a bit negative.  There is no reason
not to use Daisy as a DMS if you properly plan for it (taking the
limitations of Daisy and the amount of work that you are willing to
spend into account).

So here's my constructive feedback (Yes, it I am doing a 180° here, sue
me ;-)

- Java libraries exist for processing mails
- Think about your document model: Are your attachments separate
documents that are linked to the mail (parent-linked or child-linked?)
or do you have one document which contains the mail (in the first case
you will need an extension for creating the document (splitting up the
mail etc, in the last case you will need an extension for viewing the
attachments).
- Intergration with mail-client: as you indicated yourself: it will be
cumbersome (and possibly error-prone) to open the email source and
copy-paste into Daisy - If you have control about the mail client you
could create a script (lotus notes?) or extension (thunderbird) or macro
(outlook) to automate the process.

When I said 'nontrivial' earlier I mostly meant: you are going to need
to do a considerable amount of work - find out beforehand how motivated
you are ;-)

And when I said:
> I strongly suggest you research other solutions.
I should have said '... you *also* research other solutions' ;-)

Regards,
Karel

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 16:48 +0200, Antal Koós wrote:
> Hi Karel,
> 
> You make me sad:-)
> I 've used a good proprietary  DMS  for ten years. I think Daisy is
> not so bad for DMS too.
> There is a market niche.
> Anyway I intended to store mails not automatically, not en masse and
> not only mails.
> 
> Best regards,
>    Antal Koós
> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 13:38, Karel Vervaeke <karel at outerthought.org> wrote:
> > Keep in mind that Daisy is not a document management system or an
> > archive tool.
> >
> > If you only want to archive emails, I would certainly not reccomend
> > Daisy - there must be better solutions (although I know none which are
> > free (speech or beer))
> >
> > That being said, there is nothing in Daisy to import and render emails,
> > you would have to implement this yourself - which will be a highly
> > nontrivial task (e.g. what about attachments? - you will almost
> > certainly need to write an extension for something like that).
> >
> > I strongly suggest you research other solutions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Karel
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 13:11 +0200, Antal Koós wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'd like to use Daisy as an enterprise document registration system.
> >> Important e-mails must be archived. It can be done manually via
> >> clipboard using "Message Source" (in Thunderbird), "Show original "(in
> >> Gmail)., etc.
> >> But how could I render it  into a readable form and be able to detach
> >> attachments?
> >> Do you now a solution, idea?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>      Antal Koós
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