Modern approach to user interfaces for e-mail

• Thesis title in Czech: Moderní přístup k uživatelským rozhraním pro e-mail
• Thesis title in English: Modern approach to user interfaces for e-mail
• Key words: elektronická pošta, vyhledávání v textu, databáze
• English key words: electronic mail, full-text search, databases
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2017/2018
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Software Engineering (32-KSI)
• Supervisor: RNDr. Miroslav Kratochvíl, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 26.09.2017
• Date of assignment: 27.09.2017
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 22.11.2017
• Date and time of defence: 22.06.2018 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 18.05.2018
• Date of submission of printed version: 18.05.2018
• Date of proceeded defence: 22.06.2018
• Opponents: RNDr. Dominik Škoda

Guidelines

Latest commercial e-mail interfaces (namely Google Mail and Inbox) have shifted the view of end-user e-mail processing: Classical folder-based, IMAP-like workflows seem obsolete when compared to instant server-side full-text search in thousands of e-mails, tag-based mail organization and easy connection to time-management features. Current possibilities of the users to run such interfaces on own trusted infrastructure without using closed-source commercial software are limited.

The thesis aims to evaluate the methods of general full-text indexing together with its application to e-mail processing, and to implement a modern e-mail interface that the users can run on-premises and that can be integrated with mail-processing infrastructure of current UNIX systems. The software will use a recent open-source text-search engine to provide the indexing functionality, and a browser-based front-end framework to create the user interface.

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Dumais, Susan, et al. "Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use." ACM SIGIR Forum. Vol. 49. No. 2. ACM, 2016.

Ingersoll, Grant S., Thomas S. Morton, and Andrew L. Farris. Taming text: how to find, organize, and manipulate it. Manning Publications Co., 2013.

Gormley, Clinton, and Zachary Tong. Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide: A Distributed Real-Time Search and Analytics Engine. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2015.