> I saw something once about a webmail direct from the DB product for > dbmail, but i can't find it again and from what i remember it was > unmaintained. I was thinking of hacking up something similar to squirrel > mail or perhaps as an addon for it to bypass the IMAP server and just > dive straight into the db. To my mind this would take a decent amount of > load off on busy servers. Any comments on this idea, is it worthwhile > pursuing. Are there people out there who want such a thing?
Jake, Jesse and I worked on a project called weDBmail, and yes it is terribly out of date (mysql only against dbmail 1.2.x). We had exactly the same thought, and I'd love to see somebody either pick it up and run with it, or build something similar from scratch. I think the "hangup" for us came with version changes, and if there were a unified dbmail API to query, rather than having to keep all the code in the webmail app, that would be a big step forward. You know, an API like IMAP or POP or such. :) Anyway, I'm a big quitter, so I never even attempted to port the codebase to the dbmail 2.x trunk. dave -- Dave Logan http://www.digitalcoven.com/ "Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!" - Alice
