Posted by Moot on 06/20/07 19:17

On Jun 19, 10:45 pm, Charles <landema...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

So... Squirrelmail?

> 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 :)

For what it's worth, I use Squirrelmail on my server and it flys. No
database caching required, I believe it's just straight IMAP.

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