I guess the question is, does Imail have value apart from the web interface.
I think it does. A great deal of time went into imail. To start fresh with
cf or php os asp would be an obnoxiously big job.
However, using one of these dynamic html languages to customize the package
that surounsds imail functionality is not necessaily that big of a job.
I think that you ahve to consider the value from a marketing potential. If
you concerned only with getting folks their mail, then no other front end is
needed. If you are attempting to build an online community based on common
interests, or if you are developing an affiliate based email service then
wrapping imail in php, cf or asp to provide database driven dynamic html to
enhance and customize the user expericent is a great idea, and one worth
pursuing.
I would certainly be interested in it. However, my background is really a
marketing one, and so my intermediate progamming skills make such a venture
tedious at best.
Food for thought :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry L Fritts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Well... New generation of templates maybe ?!?
> Seems like a big project to me and I don't see the benefit or at least
much
> benefit. You end up having to tokenize everything, build lists of tokens,
> or store them in a database. Then you still have to add the
functionality.
> But that's already done if you are using iMail and looks like it might be
> easier to get the tokens faster and more directly than parsing the web
> pages.
>
> If you want a different front end and you don't want to customize your own
> imail templates then you'd be better off using ASP or CF and using premade
> componets to send and pop. That could work with either iMail or any other
> server. But you'd have a fighting chance to grap the imail users, boxes,
> etc. There may well be those kinds of apps already available in php but
> they likely would be for *nix servers.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J.Heuing
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Well... New generation of templates maybe ?!?
>
>
> Hi !
>
> I am thinking about a project which can be done with a lot of time. I will
> tell you, because I am intersted if something like that exists.
>
> I am using IMail5, so I will develop the thing for IMail5, unless someone
> will give me the new version in change of a free template set :-)
>
> That what we are thinking about is using php to read the pages IMail
> outputs and change to content as we want it to be: For example we are
> setting up a form by reading the output of IMail into php. So, we have a
> variable with the whole content of the page. Than we keep doing that. We
> have to change any input to a new adress. Let's say, someone clicks a
link,
> we have to change it first, that not the IMail-page is loaded, incase of
> that a new php will be loaded but with the contet of the imal page changed
> internal.
>
> Hope you get that.
>
> As you can guess, it offers many posibillities: At the backend of IMail,
we
> will use a database. With that system, we can set up a whole community
> thing: using a database via ODBC, it makes it possible to use somekind of
> signup scripts and to use data in anyform. Kind of adress databases for
> example. Same time, we can put in the pages database driven input like
> news, forums, whatever.
>
> Great idea, we first will develop a system which makes it possible to read
> the content of the pages, put's th elinks into an array to use it later
and
> have some templates which are used to output the content. Obvious with
php,
> that we can modify the content as we want.....
>
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