Re: creating new Hub account from the accounts dialog

Hi Heikki,
See comments in-line.

-Brian

On Dec 13, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> Brian Moseley wrote:
>> On Dec 13, 2007 5:26 PM, Heikki Toivonen  
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am being serious here. I don't know much about Cosmo or our Hub
>>> installation. Why exactly do we need to communicate with Hub  
>>> users over
>>> email? Legal reasons? Service update announcements?
>>
>> these things, plus validating requests for account removal, notifying
>> users if we discover corrupt data that we can't fix, etc. i'm sure
>> both Jared and Todd can give you plenty of stories where they've
>> needed to communicate with users over email.
>
> All good reasons to communicate, sure.
>
> However, do we ever validate the users' email addresses after the
> account creation? If not, why should we validate the first time? Also,
> how do you deal with users whose email addresses have become invalid
> (changing ISPs, forgetting email password, .,..)? What about users  
> whose
> email address is no longer valid, and who also forget their Cosmo  
> password?
>
> You will also have to keep in mind that Chandler desktop client  
> does not
> show normal emails to the user. Despite all the warnings we may throw
> their way, some users may try to set up a Hub account using an email
> address they use only in Chandler desktop client. Does all our
> communication to Hub users go out with some special headers that  
> informs
> Chandler that it should display the email? (Actually, I am not even  
> sure
> if there are any such headers that the desktop client honors at the  
> moment.)
>

There is a special Chandler header "X-Chandler-Mailer: True". The  
Inbox of an IMAP4 Server
account and the POP3 Server message store are searched for this  
special header.

All messages with the header are currently assumed to be from another  
Chandler client and
are downloaded to Chandler.  Any message that does not contain this  
header is ignored.

The logic is different of course for Chandler folders.

It is certainly possible to include this header in emails sent from  
Cosmo as well thus
eliminating the case where the user does not see the activation  
message since
they are using Chandler exclusively with that Incoming mail account.



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