Provide IMAP (or POP) access to the DW Inbox.

[erik]

Title:
Provide IMAP (or POP) access to the DW Inbox.

Area:
DW Inbox

Summary:
I find the DW inbox cumbersome to use when it gets overfull. I'd much rather manage it like any other mailbox, in a mail application.

Description:
I've never liked the message feature of LJ/DW. I've always felt it was a weak email function bolted onto the featureset as an afterthought, serving a function that would be better served by actual email.

With that in mind I think it would be nice to be able to manage it like email, in a real email application. To do that, I'd need IMAP (or at least POP) access to my DW message inbox. This would allow me to filter out the messages I don't need to see (such as crossposting success notifications, which I cannot elect to not receive, or messages I have to get in my DW inbox in order to be allowed to get them emailed, such as comment notifications)

Poll #7884 Provide IMAP (or POP) access to the DW Inbox.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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Should be implemented as-is.
11 (17.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
24 (38.1%)

(I have no opinion)
26 (41.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[matgb]

One specific reason, you can't really reply to messages by email, you have to go into the inbox.

I, personally, don't mind either way, I don't use the inbox much, just for stuff I don't care about, however it would be nice to be able to reply by email to messages sent.

Another counterpoint-other social sites, like Facebook, are integrating their messaging setup into email, but doing it ignoring standards-I see DWs biggest competitor moving forward is likely to be sites like G+, etc.

So I'm going to tick yes to this, but it's avery soft yes, I think it'd be a massive project so unless there're people wanting to do it that wouldn't work on other things, then it'd need to be a business decision style yes from Denise-if it's to be done, it'd need to be done specifically as a sales point/business decision, and it'd need to be done properly and well.