From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 20 20:15:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from valis.worldgate.ca (valis.worldgate.ca [198.161.84.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7DA157CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:15:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from skafte@valis.worldgate.ca) Received: (from skafte@localhost) by valis.worldgate.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA10394; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:15:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:15:03 -0700 From: Greg Skafte To: Artem Koutchine Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web based main system in perl? Message-ID: <19991120211503.A9967@valis.worldgate.ca> References: <03cc01bf32c3$38018b20$0100a8c0@m1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <03cc01bf32c3$38018b20$0100a8c0@m1>; from Artem Koutchine on Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:16:23PM +0300 Organization: WorldGate Inc. X-PGP-Fingerprint: 42 9C 2C A8 4D 2B C9 C4 7D B6 00 B0 50 47 20 97 X-URL: http://gras-varg.worldgate.com/~skafte Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG might wanna checkout http://www.horde.org they have a package writen using php3 and and c.... Quoting Artem Koutchine (matrix@gerpa.ru) On Subject: Web based main system in perl? Date: Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:16:23PM +0300 > I know this is not really FBSD related, but who can one > ask in this world but kind and knowledgable FBSD users:) > > So. I am writing a web based mail system (something like > HotMail) in perl. I have to do in perl, since the company which > ordered it put it in tech. reqs. > > The problem is that when i use MIME and Mail (INternet, FOlder) > packages one request for mail processing grows as large as > 10M in memory for 700K mail. This is unacceptable. Is there any > other way or packages, libs for processing MIME mail w/o > wasting so much memory and which do not take 3 seconds to compile > to P-code on startup? May be somone already done somthing like > this in perl and can share experience. My reqs say that one host should > serve up to 100000 users (not simulatiusly of course). The hosts is > a dual Pentium III - 450/SCSI/512MB RAM. > > Besides that, are there any C libraries for parsing MIME and access > mail boxes of different types (MBOX, MAILDIR, MH,...) > > Artem > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Email: skafte@worldgate.com Voice: +403 413 1910 Fax: +403 421 4929 #575 Sun Life Place * 10123 99 Street * Edmonton, AB * Canada * T5J 3H1 -- -- PGP 2.6.2 Key fingerprint = 42 9C 2C A8 4D 2B C9 C4 7D B6 00 B0 50 47 20 97 http://gras-varg.worldgate.com/~skafte/ http://www.worldgate.com/ -- -- When things can't get any worse, they simplify themselves by getting a whole lot worse then complicated. A complete and utter disaster is the simplest thing in the world; it's preventing one that's complex. (Janet Morris) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message