From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 23:17:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DEE37B720 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f346Dik83886; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Roelof Osinga" Cc: "Chuck Sumner" , "'Peter Kok'" , Subject: RE: free webmail Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:13:44 -0700 Message-ID: <002701c0bcce$6702de60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3ACA406E.A25C69D5@nisser.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I stand corrected! :-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Roelof Osinga [mailto:roelof@nisser.com] >Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:28 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Chuck Sumner; 'Peter Kok'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: free webmail > > >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >> >I haven't looked at IMP in great detail, but even so... what has >> >a SQL DBMS got to do with an IMAP front-end? If it's used to drive >> >> IMP is written in php and php requires a database backend. > >Sorry, but nothing could be further from the truth. Though PHP works >emminently together with several dabatase backends, as well as its >internal dBase ISAM driver it does not depend on them. It doesn't >even depend on a web engine. I.e. you can use it for writing >console mode apps. At least, you could when PHP3 was still new . > >SquirrelMail is also written in PHP and does not rely on a DBMS either. >In fact, it saves user settings in some sort of text file setup. At >least, that's what I remember from my short peek behind the screens. > >Roelof > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message