From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 9:26:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (oddjob.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E3237B719 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:26:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f33GQGt44457 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:26:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Subject: RE: free webmail In-Reply-To: <002501c0bc59$f121a880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG PHP doesn't require a database backend... I think IMP uses the database for preferences and the addressbook. Aeromail is another free/web/imap app that doesn't need a database -- but of course it doesn't give you an address book either. -philip On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, 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. > > 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 5:31 AM > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt > >Cc: Chuck Sumner; 'Peter Kok'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: free webmail > > > > > >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> > >> One thing I will say about IMP is that while it's complicated to > >> configure, the combination of mySQL+PHP is rapidly becoming the > >> de-facto standard for scripted websites. Most of the effort getting > >> IMP running is spent on the bottom end, on getting PHP and mySQL > >> properly set up. Thus, you can leverage this effort elsewhere. > >> > >> PS I have explicit IMP setup instructions for FBSD 4.2 if anyone cares > > > >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 > >the UI dynamically than that would account for both its flexibility > >as well as its hardness to setup. > > > >Besides SquirrelMail I've been meaning also to take a look at > >TWIG. Where SquirrelMail does what's needed, TWIG adds things > >like scheduling, contact management, USENET, To Do lists,etc. > > > >There's also http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/ which gives a nice > >overview of things IMAP. > > > >Roelof > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message