Justin, This will be helpful and enables the archives to be used almost as a notice board if desired Looking forward to the facility All the best for the program coding Michael

-----Original Message----- From: Dada Mail (Justin Simoni) [mailto:dada@skazat com] Sent: 01 November 2005 02:05 To: mike@encaustic com Subject: [dadadev] Archive Editor For Dada Mail - Request for Comments

Hello everyone I've been commissioned to (re)make the archive editor
for Dada Mail Below is a small writeup of what I propose I'm asking
for anyone that's interested to give me some comments and feedback on
the below ideas so that I can have this feature work great for as
many people as possible - thanks!

Background

Dada Mail had an archive editor, but as the complexity of messages
Dada Mail could create increased, the less usuable the editor became,
since the editor could only edit singlepart messages which were
either PlainText or HTML Messages sent from Dada Mail can be
singlepart, multiplart/alternative (text and HTML version included)
and multipart/related (text and/or HTML with attachments that have
something to do with the main message

The other problem was that Dada Mail's archive system also didn't
save anything except plaintext/HTML messages correctly This problem
has been solved since version 2 9 An editor of the archives has
still not been created

A third party has expressed interest in starting a subproject in Dada
Mail to put back the archive editor in Dada Mail which will be able
to work with complex email messages

I propose, as a starting point of the archive editor, it has the
following functionalities:

• Understand complex email messages

• For multipart/alternative messages:

• Has the ability to edit the HTML version of the message and create
  the plaintext version from the newly edited HTML version

• For messages with attachments:

• Have the ability to Delete the attachment, or replace the
  attachment with another file, that can be uploaded

Initially, this feature will NOT be a part of the main Dada Mail
program, but rather will be released as a plugin Doing this:

• development and testing can be done towards a feature complete
  subproject, before it's added to the main program

• Most likely, the plugin will be available to the public in the next
  maintenence release of Dada Mail Maintenence releases do not
  usually have major feature enhancements Since there isn't any
  development of Dada Mail 2 11, or 3 0 planned (although this very
  feature is slated for 2 11), this is an interesting way to develop
  new features without (yet) branching for the new version

• This will also allow me to deliver this feature very soon (within a
  week!) instead of having people wait for the next major release of
  the program, which may be months away

• The above development scheme has been working very well for another
  plugin, dada_bridge pl - which allows for discussion lists in Dada
  Mail This feature, from the start, was announced as something that
  will be in the core of Dada Mail, but is currently in a beta form
  It's currently being used by the Dada Mail Developers themselves very
  effectively

The above report has been put together to request feedback and
comments about the archive editor itself and any aspects of how it
should be designed All comments and feedback are welcome

Justin Simoni