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[Michel RENON <renon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Antony,

Le 24/01/2014 02:49, Antony Lesuisse a écrit :
> We plead guilty about not communicating enough about the developments
> going on at openerp. We prefer spending more time on fixing bugs and
> developing awesomefeatures
>
> As you probably know, EVERYTHING we do is publicly available on
> launchpad and runbot.openerp.com but there are thousands of branches and
> it can be a maze for the layman.
> [...]

Thanks for taking time to explain all this !

I still have a question :
months ago OpenERP announced a project to handle mails in a new way
(http://www.erpweb.co.za/blog/2012/11/21/the-future-of-enterprise-emails-in-openerp-7/). 
It was clearly said that first parts will be available in 2014, so we 
are patiently waiting ;-)


As a user, but also for my customers, I have to plan future 
configurations (based on OSS) :
- Thunderbird is slowly EOL'd
- the rise of multiple devices (desktop, tablets, phones)
- need of cross-platform solutions
- integration of mail with others datas (calendars, contacts, projects, 
documents...)

Your future mail solution is promising, but some users still need a 
classical way of handling mail.
It seems logical to integrate a standard webmail in OpenERP because 
there is already contacts, calendars, projects.
(There was a thread on october 2013 about that "Email usability 
improvements" : https://lists.launchpad.net/openerp-community/msg03429.html)

I would be ready to help develop such a module !
To speed up dev and not reinvent the wheel, I think it could be based on 
RoundCube's webmail. And store in OpenERP only mails associated to 
projects, other mails would be left on IMAP server (ex : dovecot if 
local server)

My question is :
if we start to develop that module, won't it be obsoleted by OpenERP 
v8.x or v9 or any future official mail module ?

Maybe make the 2 solutions complements instead of opponents ?


Regards,

Michel Renon


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