Hello Gordon, On Thu, January 11, 2007 7:22 pm, Gordon Thagard wrote: > Hi, > > > has anyone done any work to allow squirrelmail to read Maildirs directly > from the filesystem as opposed to having to use IMAP? It seems to me this > would greatly increase performance for a sizable group of email admins. > No we did not and we do not consider that because it would be very slow. SquirrelMail is an IMAP client and not an IMAP server. Modern fast imap servers cache relevant info like bodystructures, flags and certain headers. That makes certain imap servers very fast. You can not beat the performance of imap servers if you have to process everything in php. A lot of parsing is involved and a lot of extra functionality is needed to provide the functionality as mentioned in the IMAP specification. There is also a security issue. You don't want that your http user has read/write access to all the mail. Regards, Marc Groot Koerkamp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
