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["Tobias G. Pfeiffer" <tgpfeiffer@xxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Hi,

As far as I can see, in OpenERP there is the possibility to attach emails to a partner or a lead contact, either by
 1. (outgoing) writing the email using the OpenERP client and (incoming) configuring OpenERP to access an IMAP server and link emails on that server with existing objects or
 2. linking emails with objects through the Thunderbird/Outlook plugin.
However, there seems to be no opposite way, i.e. to access the emails attached to objects from your email client.

For documents stored within the internal document management system, OpenERP allows access via either WebDAV or FTP. This is a good thing, because it allows access to the files even without the web/GTK client, just standard OS tools.
I want to propose doing a similar thing for emails. Why not have an OpenERP module that provides an IMAP server interface to access emails attached to objects? One could have a directory structure like:

Lead Contacts/
 Test Company/
  (all mails sent to and from Test Company)
 Other Company/
  (all mails sent to and from Other Company)
Partners/
 Best Partner/
  (all mails sent to and from Best Partner)

It should be rather easy to provide a read-only interface for that.
Probably a bit more complicated (but also pretty cool) would be a read-
write interface, i.e. copying a mail into an existing folder would
import that email into OpenERP and link it to the partner/lead.

What do you think about this? Is it a useful idea? Is there a better-
practice approach already existing? How much work would it take to
implement this, given that something like twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server
already exists?

Kind regards,
Tobias Pfeiffer

** Affects: openobject-addons
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/745273

Title:
  [wishlist] access emails *in* OpenERP via IMAP interface

Status in OpenERP Modules (addons):
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  As far as I can see, in OpenERP there is the possibility to attach emails to a partner or a lead contact, either by
   1. (outgoing) writing the email using the OpenERP client and (incoming) configuring OpenERP to access an IMAP server and link emails on that server with existing objects or
   2. linking emails with objects through the Thunderbird/Outlook plugin.
  However, there seems to be no opposite way, i.e. to access the emails attached to objects from your email client.

  For documents stored within the internal document management system, OpenERP allows access via either WebDAV or FTP. This is a good thing, because it allows access to the files even without the web/GTK client, just standard OS tools.
  I want to propose doing a similar thing for emails. Why not have an OpenERP module that provides an IMAP server interface to access emails attached to objects? One could have a directory structure like:

  Lead Contacts/
   Test Company/
    (all mails sent to and from Test Company)
   Other Company/
    (all mails sent to and from Other Company)
  Partners/
   Best Partner/
    (all mails sent to and from Best Partner)

  It should be rather easy to provide a read-only interface for that.
  Probably a bit more complicated (but also pretty cool) would be a
  read-write interface, i.e. copying a mail into an existing folder
  would import that email into OpenERP and link it to the partner/lead.

  What do you think about this? Is it a useful idea? Is there a better-
  practice approach already existing? How much work would it take to
  implement this, given that something like
  twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server already exists?

  Kind regards,
  Tobias Pfeiffer