BlueWebMail

BlueWebMail is a full featured Plone integrated MailUserAgent for IMAP accounts including personal and global address book facilities.

Project Description

Features:

• access to IMAP accounts
• message management
• draft management
• folder management
• an overview portlet outside the mailbox
• addressbook, global (uses PAS groups) and personal, could also be used standalone
• global and personal contact search
• possibility for copying global contacts to personal ones
  
• grouping of personal contacts
  
• direct attachment to ATCT extraction to display attachments inline in message view
• optional IMAP authentication with PAS properties
• sending restrictions (could be defined for groups with wildcard matches)
• group mailing
• wysiwyg editor support (kupu only) for html mails
• on the fly switching between plaintext and html message creation mode
• multiple attachment sending
  
• mailheader caching
  
• Pluggable MailSendout, Receipient Provider, DispatchRuleSet using zcml
  

Installation

• checkout the desired bundle from https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/BlueWebMail/bundles/plone2.5
• checkout from collective and install the dependent modules bda.email.imap and bda.cache and restart zope
  
• Install BlueWebMail with the quickinstaller (BlueWebMail already uses a profile, but the installation is a mixture between QI and profiles and the profile is invoked programmatically by the install script -> planned to be changed at plone 3 mirgration)
• create an address book object and a mailbox object with the authenticated user.

TODO:

• testing
• fix folder management for several IMAP servers (currently tested against courier, but the behaviour differs on other servers)
• optimize caching (on message management actions cache flushes are made as reload, thats not that fast)
• some refactoring of the underlying imap lib (bda.email.imap), see README.txt in module for details
  
• make all this macro stuff beeing viewlets (planned when migrating to plone3)
  
• modify controller being a viewlet manager to get rid of this ugly redirecting stuff (planned when mirgrating to plone3)
  
• move headerparsing from browser view to lower level
• get rid of QI setup
  

 

Written 2006, 2007

• BlueDynamics Klein & Partner KEG, Innsbruck, Austria
• Squarewave Computing Robert Niederreiter, Innsbruck, Austria

Author: Robert Niederreiter, Jens Klein

License: GPL

 

Current Release

No stable release available yet.