XS Community Edition/Features/email server

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Summary

An offline email server with sync capabilities.

Owner

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Current status

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Detailed Description

Providing email support through the DXS could be a key value add from the appliance. The server must host the email accounts for the clients, maintain an LDAP address repository, and sync up with an online server in the presence of internet connectivity.

Thus a student should potentially be able to send email to anyone, even if they aren't online, but just connected to the server. These emails could be batch-processed when the server does come online.

The need for this offline-available architecture is pervasive through the server platform. Perhaps we should put some thought into this at an architectural level.

Benefit to XSCE

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Scope

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UI Design

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User Experience

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