Posted by Charles on 06/20/07 02:45

I'm developing a PHP webmail, it's going to have no graphics at all
and I want it to be as fast as possible. I was comparing loading a
list of messages using the imap function set of PHP and displaying the
same amount of information using a simple SQL query from MySQL. I
found MySQL faster, I'm about to store all e-mails automatically into
a MySQL database because of that and also because of the search speed/
features that I want. But before going further, I'd like to know if
you think it's my best bet to go this way and to use the imap set of
functions of PHP just to import messages into the MySQL DB during the
installation of the application. I would use e-mail piping so that as
soon as I get mails, my php script would store them into the DB.
Please let me know what you think, and if you have extra tips,
perfect!
Thanks :)

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