Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:13:44 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Roelof Osinga" <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: "Chuck Sumner" <csumner@omnisky.com>, "'Peter Kok'" <cckok00@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: free webmail Message-ID: <002701c0bcce$6702de60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3ACA406E.A25C69D5@nisser.com>
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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 <g>. > >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
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