Lars Hansson wrote:
On Thursday 20 July 2006 03:32, Whyzzi wrote:
Requires MySQL
And the rational reason for a webmail system to require a RDBMS backend is?
Preferences and address books at least. Once you've got more than a
handful of users, it gets a little silly keeping all that in flat files.
You could use something like BDB or whatever, but then you're likely to
hit more versioning and platform issues. Some systems will also use a DB
for other things. The H3 versions of IMP can do things like send a
automagically-created link to a file instead of an attachment, and it
keeps the authentication and expiration information for that in the DB
from what I understand.
It would be nice if the software didn't *require* a DB, but I can see
how requiring one makes things simpler for the developers.
--Todd
