hi, > You're not seeing the big picture here: webmail over IMAP is a > fundamentally broken design. There is absolutely no reason why the webmail > server cannot read mail directly. Instead of reading mail directly, > connecting to the IMAP server on the same host seems to be a rather dumb > thing to do. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from the massive > overhead of an IMAP connection. [..]
Oh yes, there is. It's called Security. I don't want to be running a Webmail Client with sudo, instead I trust Courier-IMAP and can run a Webmail software with lower privileges. It's like running an command- line application as root (SUID, sudo, whatever ..), and having a GUI somewhere else. Yes, it causes additional overhead, but that's not very much if both webmail and IMAP server are running on the same host. BTW: There IS a webmail that directly reads from Maildirs (but does not support subfolders, unfortunately). It's called omail-webmail, and it runs with sudo: http://freshmeat.net/projects/omail-webmail/?topic_id=31%2C96 -daniel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
