Catherine, look at the project DBMail. I bet they would have a lot of
documentation on why you might want to do such a thing.
IMHO, cyrus-imapd + Squirrelmail is the best webmail around.
Greg
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:56:47AM -0400, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote:
> Hey Catherine,
>
>
> Wednesday, July 18, 2001, 6:23:07 AM, you wrote:
>
> CR1c> I have come across mention in this list's archive about using a MySql
> CR1c> database as a mail store for webmail, leaving IMAP out of the loop
> CR1c> completely. Is this possible and, if so, what are the limitations? Anyone
> CR1c> using such a setup?
>
> IMAP is a protocol. MySQL is a RDBMs. I'm not seeing the relationship
> here. Even if you could store your mail in MySQL, how would it get there,
> or be retrieved? That's the idea of IMAP.
>
> And what benefit would there be to having the mail in a MySQL database.
> Seems like unneeded overhead to me.
>
> --
> Kevin
>
