No!!I haven't been involved in any of that before , I'm just scratching the surface , but I mean how hard can it be? I should have a contact_id field in a table, an f_name , l_name , email_address , from field , email_body ... Is that it?I don't know. I will probably use Exim , there must be some plugin out there for Exim to already do that.To drop every e-mail in a mysql?!!!Somebody must've done that before. But anyway as I said it before , you make it sound really simple.I'm glad I didn't scared you guys with my ideas , cause you know what they say about technology and magic. I am on the magic side for now.I don't know nothing yet......
Ed Leafe wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008, at 12:47 PM, cfirsten wrote: > >> Ok so I decided that Dabo is for me ..Is it?What I want to do with >> it is not >> very complicated , I want to create a gui for some winxp machines that >> interact with a mysql back-end and I want the user to be able to >> save data >> into the mysql db and also be able to search and run reports on that >> db. >> >> What I have on my hands is that I work for a company that sells >> movies ( no >> ,not a big time company) and we have about 200 movies and 15,000 >> contacts.So >> before I dig any deeper into dabo I'm waiting for an advice from you >> guys.Can it be done? >> I want the user to be able to add new contacts and new movies also.A >> movie >> can be related to many contacts and a contact can be related to many >> movies.The user should also be able to run searches through the db , >> so for >> example he wants to see how many contacts are related to X-movie and >> be able >> to print that info out. >> This is my first project but wait till you get a load of the second >> one. > > > Have you done much database development before? This doesn't sound > very complex at all. > >> I want exim to route every e-mail that comes in into a mysql db >> build on >> those contacts and "place" every e-mail under the contact it came in >> from >> and I also want the ui to be searchable in terms of contacts and/or >> emails.Ok , so for the e-mails that don't yet have a contact I want >> them to >> be dropped into a separate db for later review.So , for example I >> get an >> e-mail from somebody that's not in the database that e-mail should be >> dropped into the db anyway somewhere like not-in-db for a manual >> review by >> the user.After the user adds the contact into the usual db the e- >> mail should >> be moved where it belongs along with the contact info. > > Are you looking to use Dabo to do this, or exim? > >> The db should be searchable from the ui and let's say I want to see >> all my >> conversations with Ed Leafe I would do a search in the ui and all my >> e-mails >> to Ed and from Ed should be right there.The ui should also be able >> to add >> new contact info into the db. >> I'm not asking too much , am I? > > Again, this sounds like a very common database app. > >> The reason I'm telling you all this is that I want an opinion from >> you , how >> long will it take you to build such a beast and then I'll be able to >> multiply that by 10 and have my answer to forward that to my >> boss.Cause >> that's how long I think it will take me to do it. > > Do you already have the database design in place, or are you creating > that, too? > > There's really no way to estimate time, since it depends completely > on a) how adept you are at database design, b) how familiar you are > with the framework, and c) your overall development experience. > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
