>> Eelco van Beek wrote:

>>> A few user management functions are also available to if anybody is
>>> willing to create a nice and shiny GUI that talks XML-RPC we can
>>> built a secure DBMAIL management GUI.

Where do we want to do the XML-RPC server? In C as part of DBMail, or in
Python which calls into DBMail? What if this were a mechanism to export
all of DBMail's functionality through XML-RPC?

Here's my crazy thought:

Rather than having apps like webDBmail dig directly into the database
(which is cheap and fast, but it means that the web app needs intimate
knowledge of the database and any revisions it goes through) we export an
XML-RPC interface that the web app queries. I have no delusions that the
XML-RPC will be any *simpler* than the direct SQL, but I do think it might
be more maintainable long term.

Aaron



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