[FEATURE] Email client integration
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100
Research direction
The issue describes two possible approaches: a Bichon API extension or an IMAP server, potentially integrated with exim or dovecot. Start by reading the project's API and mail storage entry points to assess how archived messages are searched and retrieved. Done would mean choosing and implementing an integration that lets users access archived messages from an email client; the issue does not specify which approach to take.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Description
I had an interesting talk with a client of mine. So; they have many GBs of emails that make any email client sweat. They obviously need archiving, but 365/exchange is over their budget and all other archiving solutions lack one key feature: Email Client Integration.
Purpose / Use Case
Having to forward a 3-year-old message that only exists in the archive with the current setup means:
- Search in Bichon
- Download the eml
- Open in with the email client and go from there
That's not how people want to work.
Additional Information (optional)
Solution 1: Native Extension
An extension that utilizes the Bichon API to search and restore (a.k.a. download) specific messages.
Solution 2: Bichon IMAP Server
An IMAP client can be configured to only download message headers, thus only the opened messages are downloaded on the client. Really close to how archiving works on MS Exchange.
For this to work though it would take a custom IMAP server implementation for connecting / searching / getting messages, or an integration with exim/dovecot.
Also, we would need a custom email addresses so that it won't conflict with the live one (e.g. user_domain@bichon)
P.S. If Solution 2 is out of the question I could start working on a Thunderbird extension, perhaps a Roundcube plugin as well.
- Dominant language
- Rust
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