On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:04:31 -0800 Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that > >> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed > >> only for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. > >> > >> - Grant > >> > > > > I don't think you'll find anything faster except maybe written in > > C, which is doubtful. The only other language you might find > > webmail written in is Perl/CGI and that is definitely not faster in > > my experience. PHP is about as good as you will get IMHO. > > I actually don't mean to speed up squirrelmail and PHP. The main > function of that system is to run a website in perl, and I thought I > might be bogging down apache2 a bit just by opening it up to PHP > interpretation (-D PHP). Is that the case? It would also be nice not > to be exposed to PHP exploits. It just seems kind of silly to > maintain and run PHP just for webmail. You could try running a second webserver instance for the webmail, allowing the main one to run without PHP loaded. RobbieAB.
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