[Phpgroupware-users] Re: Maildir capable email module

[Brian Jackson]

Does php add overhead. I ask because right now for webmail I use sqwebmail 
and it uses Maildir's instead of IMAP or anything else. It is written in C 
as a cgi, so unless php adds overhead I can't imagine why it would be too 
different performance wise(sqwebmail doesn't do anything with the spool only 
the Maildir, and it uses a single account that all the mail is owned by and 
is only r/w by that user). Let me know what you think. 

Chris Weiss writes: 

> this gets brought up every couple months, but it's not practical.  I'm sure
> it's possible, most anything is, but everyones mailboxes, both in spool and in
> their home dirs, would have to be world writable.  Not to mention the
> performance issues with raw file access and the memory needed to load up a
> large mailbox (like my 20,000 message Trash folder) and parse it into the
> message parts.  IMAP is just so much more suited for this. 
>
> Brian Jackson (address@hidden) wrote*:
> > I have been listening to the list for a few months, and didn't really have
> > lot of time to mess around with phpgw for a while(I had install problems
> > with earlier versions). Since 9.14final was released I decided to try again
> > and it installed and seems to be running without any problems. Now for the
> > real reason I am writing the list(because I am sure everybody cares tons
> > that I finally got off my duff and got it working) 
> >
> > I seem to remember a while back someone asking if there was a Maildir
> > capable mail client for phpgw(I might be crazy too so if nothing like that
> > ever happened just pretend it did). Does anybody know if such a beastie
> > exists is being worked on(and possibly needs help) or is ever planned? 
> >
> > Thanks for any info. 
> >
> > --Brian 
> >
> > p.s. to all the people who have spent too much time working on phpgw
> > ....great job! 
> >
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