Mail: Real vs. Fake Mails - uzh/marugoto GitHub Wiki

Advantages: Real mail client

• Realistic user experience (if working how intended) (MD: and the "if" is the key word here!)
• More "depth" in gameplay
• Less effort for development (MD: please explain this in our meeting)
• Spam also part of real-world work (MD: Is this really an advantage? Seems to me that spam is, wherever possible, excluded from our working lives through institutional mail settings. I suspect many users would be uncomfortable about having to deal with spam settings in order to play our game.)

Advantages: Fake mail client (in-game)

• Fail-proof (no spam issues)
• User doesn't have to leave application / medium
• More control over how mails/notifications are displayed
• Mailing functionality can be implemented precisely as requried, not more or less
• (MD: does the fake client reduce the possibility that things could go wrong in the interface between a real mail client and the research notebook?)
• (MD: can we think of any disadvantages of the fake male client–regardless of whether we use a real mail client?)