Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-17 Thread George Sanderson
At 09:32 AM 12/15/00 -0300, you wrote: Jeremy Howard wrote: IMHO, the best open source WebMail servers are PHP based I have this dangling idea of building a TWIG lookalike (in Perl), with a 'plug-in'/'module' structure, so I may write the email client, and others fill with their desired

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-16 Thread Michael
On Fri Dec 15 11:28:03 2000 -0800 brian moseley wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? It's a pretty powerful system and it was designed for mod_perl. Look it up on CPAN. it's an option, but it's got a

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread martin langhoff
Jeremy Howard wrote: IMHO, the best open source WebMail servers are PHP based true, I am using and patching TWIG quite a lot, and that made me see how messy PHP gets when dealing with libraries and things. It's not nice to see a large app written in PHP... at least not this one. I have

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: I have this dangling idea of building a TWIG lookalike (in Perl), with a 'plug-in'/'module' structure, so I may write the email client, and others fill with their desired modules. Anyway, it's a seriuos undertaking, but it's in my plans to

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread martin langhoff
brian moseley wrote: (speaking as the author of a proprietary mod_perl webmail...) DO IT!! my fear is that writing it as a mod_perl app, it'd be terribly niche, and we wouldn't get it rolling. I'd rather write a bunch of modules, that can be called from a CGI or a templating

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: brian moseley wrote: (speaking as the author of a proprietary mod_perl webmail...) DO IT!! my fear is that writing it as a mod_perl app, it'd be terribly niche, and we wouldn't get it rolling. I'd rather write a bunch of modules,

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: I have this dangling idea of building a TWIG lookalike (in Perl), with a 'plug-in'/'module' structure, so I may write the email client, and others fill with their desired modules. Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? It's a

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread clayton cottingham
martin langhoff wrote: brian moseley wrote: (speaking as the author of a proprietary mod_perl webmail...) DO IT!! my fear is that writing it as a mod_perl app, it'd be terribly niche, and we wouldn't get it rolling. I'd rather write a bunch of modules, that can be called

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? It's a pretty powerful system and it was designed for mod_perl. Look it up on CPAN. it's an option, but it's got a large amount of dependencies, which makes it a tremendous effort for me to

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Riardas epas
On Fri Dec 15 11:28:03 2000 -0800 brian moseley wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? It's a pretty powerful system and it was designed for mod_perl. Look it up on CPAN. it's an option, but it's got a large amount

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Robin Berjon
At 11:28 15/12/2000 -0800, brian moseley wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? It's a pretty powerful system and it was designed for mod_perl. Look it up on CPAN. it's an option, but it's got a large amount of dependencies,

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread martin langhoff
Perrin Harkins wrote: Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? I've seen TWIG and its *very* clever, if ugly. It'll let you authenticate against a lot of things. Use IMAP or POP. Use News. Use mysql, Postgres, MySQL, or none. Use cookies or encoded links for state. It's *very*

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: Wing has been widely tested in the field iirc, it's probably a good idea to base anything in that domain on it. possibly. groupware applications aren't that complex really, tho (except for calendaring and scheduling); the main problem is that they're

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? I've seen TWIG and its *very* clever, if ugly. It'll let you authenticate against a lot of things. Use IMAP or POP. Use News. Use mysql, Postgres, MySQL, or none.

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Robin Berjon
At 12:23 15/12/2000 -0800, brian moseley wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: Wing has been widely tested in the field iirc, it's probably a good idea to base anything in that domain on it. possibly. groupware applications aren't that complex really, tho (except for calendaring

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: "George Sanderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 22:47 Subject: RFC: Email (mod_perl) Apache module? The module would allow the users to read and send email. Now that would be advocacy;-) No, that would be spam. -- \js

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Leon Brocard wrote: Jeremy Howard sent the following bits through the ether: IMHO, the best open source WebMail servers are PHP based: In Perl, there's also WING: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing/ and my oh-my-god-it's-still-in-development-and-I'm-still-breaking-

RFC: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-14 Thread George Sanderson
I think it would be cool to have an email Apache module. I was thinking that if the URL was something like: http://www.site.com/user/mail it would activate the module. The module would allow the users to read and send email. Kind of like how I did Apache::FileMan (an Apache web site file

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
George Sanderson wrote: I think it would be cool to have an email Apache module. I was thinking that if the URL was something like: http://www.site.com/user/mail it would activate the module. The module would allow the users to read and send email. Kind of like how I did