by Nclinic » July 4th, 2016, 7:12 pm
I can see that IMAP support has previously been discussed, explaining that it is not going to happen because of the problems of IMAP being online-only. This post is to suggest that there may be another way of looking at it.
We have had the Email Manager module for some years, and it has never been implemented because as POP-only, it can only really be used as a standalone solution, precluding the use of cloud syncing with Outlook or smartphones, and in this day and age that is not acceptable. It's a complete dealbreaker to be required to have ALL emails going through ClinicOffice. And a complete dealbreaker to not have mobile/cloud access. And a complete dealbreaker not to be able to use Gmail, Outlook or Office 365 for all their other features.
Far better in my view to have a more limited IMAP solution that is usable in the real world in 2016. And in fact, I disagree that IMAP is online-only. As well as offline syncing, it is perfectly possible to flag emails to be saved permanently offline if they need to go into a patient's records. And very useful to be able to send an email and have the outgoing email saved to the cloud Sent Items folder, as well as the patient's ClinicOffice record.
Similarly, the alternatives for team use of email include forwarding emails, multiple IMAP logins to the same account for different users and Exchange mailbox sharing.
And it is also possible to have both approaches side by side, as some people may have got used to POP and not want to change, despite all the benefits of cloud email.
So please consider starting with a really basic implementation of IMAP, so sent messages are synced and any message can be copied to client records.
Thank you.