I agrre, that would be super awesome! But don't distract the already very small dev team from working on cherokee ;)
----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremy Morton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2012 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [Cherokee] Cherokee equivalent for e-mail? I'm not saying you wouldn't have to code a bunch of extra stuff to be a mail server. :-) I'm just saying it would be cool if there were a mail server as easy to configure as the Cherokee web server is. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 08/12/2012 02:11, Stefan de Konink wrote: > On 12/08/12 03:07, Jeremy Morton wrote: >> OK, just throwing this one out there. >> >> I really like the ease of configuration that Cherokee has - it has made >> setting up a powerful, fast web server on a Linux box easy. >> >> How about doing the same thing for e-mail as you've done for web? Why >> not have a Cherokee equivalent MTA that would allow the quick and easy >> setup of something that supports SMTP, POP3, and IMAP? The admin >> interface could allow configuration of user accounts, domains, SSL auth, >> etc. It would certainly be a lot nicer than spending a month reading >> the Exim / Dovecot documentation and then editing a bunch of text files. >> :-) > > A few years I have discussed exactly the same thing. Theoretically you > can do these kind of things using the current infrastructure. But being > a mailserver is a completely different ballpark than being a webserver > performance wise. Hence: a mailserver typically stores e-mail, while a > webserver reads pages from disk. > > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > Cherokee mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee > _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
