Re: PG Email Client - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tino Wildenhain
Subject Re: PG Email Client
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Msg-id 45BDE116.80306@wildenhain.de
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In response to PG Email Client  (Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il>)
Responses Re: PG Email Client  (Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il>)
Re: PG Email Client  (Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net>)
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Sim Zacks schrieb:
> Are there any postgresql based email clients that anyone has experience
> with?
> Is there a good technical reason why everyone is not doing this? It
> would seem to me to be a super CRM/ERP enhancement.
>
> I am toying with the idea of fully integrating email into our ERP system
> so that our email can be indexed in multiple ways and can be viewable as
> a direct relation with the subsystem or multiple subsystems that it is
> related to. It would also allow an organizational view of the
> communication related to the subsystem rather then an individual view
> that email generally gives. For example, if I want to look at a
> customer, if corporate email is integrated then I can see the entire
> history of communication with that customer, including pre-sales, sales,
> support, shipping, etc irrelevant as to who sent the email.

Well "client" would be the wrong approach imho, but there
is for example dbmail which can use postgres as storage
for mail and opens a lot of the usecases above. You would
continue to use your MUA for reading mail but some of the
mails could be handled by your application directly.

Regards
Tino

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