From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 14:28:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0642C37B720 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA48013; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:28:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3ACA406E.A25C69D5@nisser.com> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 23:28:14 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: Nisser - Nr. 1 in Veiligheid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Chuck Sumner , "'Peter Kok'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: free webmail References: <002501c0bc59$f121a880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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