Maybe zoe is a start? http://zoe.nu/ I find that very interesting.
Also, IMHO files isn't always the correct interface for a user. I work in a shop where we spen most of our time finding and examining information, something that often needs to be structured with mails to costumers etc. I find most of my coworkest using mail for this in a quite ok way. I often set quotas to around 1 -2 gb. I think the idea is very interesting. Also take a look at Haystack: http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/ It's not there yet, but when it does, WOW! Tarjei On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:53, Samuel Luxford-Watts wrote: > Yes they are huge mailboxes. > > This is a law firm, and often email is used as a convenient way of > transferring documents back and forth between various parties. Email > management is a HUGE topic at the moment in the legal IT world. For this > very reason and large sums of money are being spent on solutions that, in my > opinion, don't really solve the problem - just ease it. > > Here and indeed the previous firm I worked for I have had to deal with users > with mailboxes of almost 1Gb. I could easily modify our email gateway to > strip attachments and place them in our DMS. I would be very interested in > hearing of any (opensource) web based file/document management tool that > would integrate with a webmail client. > > We only have around 90 users at this site and an exchange store of around > 20-30Gb > > We currently use exchange at the moment, but linux is creeping in to more of > our network..... > > Sam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael J Barber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 October 2003 17:16 > To: Jim Howell > Cc: Ken Murchison; Cyrus Mailing List > Subject: Re: Slightly off-topic question but very useful one > > > This brings up another thread in this off-topic discussion. Anyone know of > a good web based file management tool that (preferably) can or cannot be > integrated with a webmail client. > > Thanks, > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Michael J Barber > SUNY Plattsburgh > CMS Computer Labs Technician > 116D Feinberg Library > Plattsburgh, NY 12901 > 518.564.2319 > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > Quoting Jim Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ^^ At 10:26 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Ken Murchison wrote: > ^^ >Jim Howell wrote: > ^^ > > ^^ >>Hi, > ^^ >> I apologize for this off-topic question but I think we will > all > ^^ > ^^ >> find this useful. What mailfile size limits do folks support and the > ^^ >> user mailbox quota size? We are being told by some of our users that > we ^^ > ^^ >> are too restrictive. Here at Cornell we allow 15MB mailfiles from 8am > > ^^ >> to 6pm and 100MB mailfiles from 6pm to 8am. > ^^ > > ^^ >Wow! If you have users complaining about 15MB, let alone 100MB, you > ^^ >probably need to teach them that email isn't a file transfer protocol > ^^ >;) If somebody needs to send a file that large, they should be emailing > > ^^ >the link, and not the file. > ^^ > ^^ Hi, > ^^ I agree but people complain about the effort to setup the file > ^^ transfer vs email.. Sigh.. The complaint is more about the filesizes > than ^^ > ^^ the quota, I just thought I'd kill two birds with one mailfile.. :) ^^ > Jim ^^ > ^^ > ^^ >A 200MB quota seems more than generous, except for the fact that you're > ^^ >allowing them to reach their quota with only 2 messages. Perhaps > allowing ^^ > ^^ >the users to "misuse" their email account in this way is what is causing > > ^^ >the complaints? > ^^ > > ^^ >-- > ^^ >Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. > ^^ >Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place > ^^ >716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 > ^^ >--PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp > ^^ > > ^^ > ^^ Jim Howell > ^^ CIT Messaging Systems Manager > ^^ Cornell University > ^^ 728 Rhodes Hall > ^^ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ^^ Phone: 607-255-9369 > ^^ > ^^ > > ----------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------- > This site run by Horde http://www.horde.org > Apache http://httpd.apache.org > PHP http://www.php.net > PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org > MySQL http://www.mysql.com > Postfix http://www.postfix.org > Cyrus-Imap http://asg.web.cmu.edu/ > and of course > GNU Linux by RedHat http://www.redhat.com > ----------------------------------------------------- > > -------------- > Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents > DX 148400 WESTMINSTER 5 : 35 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3LR > Telephone 020 7593 5000 Fax 020 7593 5099 > > -Confidentiality- > This email message and any attachments are confidential; they may be subject to > legal professional privilege and are intended for the named recipient only. 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