280837 - Implement a Eudora style Sharing Protocol to share private folders with selected recipients

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jules]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Eudora has a sharing protocol (ESP) which allows a user to select a folder, and
share its contents with known people.  The contents are sent through e-mail and
modifications to the shared files or folder contents are verified at preset
intervals and mailed to the members of the group.

A good addition to the protocol would be automatic compression of files prior to
sending and automatic decompression upon reception.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jules]

I forgot to mention, that this should be implemented as an optional extension,
not included into the core Thunderbird

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

more info here:
http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/tutorials/esp/
http://www.eudora.com/email/features/esp.html

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[zug_treno]

See also Penelope bug 359308.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> See also Penelope bug 359308.

indeed

Comment 8

[Matt]

Do we still need this? I would have thought the plethora of drive and folder sharing option on the net these days would make this largely obsolete.