Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] adressbook-normalization

[Norbert Bollow]

> However, I think we should still allow a way for a user to define small
> mailing lists from their addressbook just as you can in many other email
> programs. It would be very limited and simply take your users "group" as
> the to address and replace that with the list of addresses that are in
> that group. All of the addresses would show up in the To: field and as
> such would show that it is not a real mailing list tool. Just a "mail to
> this predefined list of people" function

Yes, an addressbook certainly should provide functionality for
defining groups of people.

The "email composer" webservice component can then pull the
email addresses (of the group members) from the addressbook
and use them as recipient email addresses.

This way, other webservice components can also make use of
these groups.  For example, we will want to have a file
storage/retrieval system that allows remote storage of files, so
that you can to give others limited or full access rights.  Then
you could give all members of your group "friends" read access
to a specific document, and then send an email to group
"friends" telling them about this document.

Greetings, Norbert.

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