jeroen clarysse wrote:
Hi all,
a rather generic question from a newcomer to this list. Please forgive
me if i'm way off topic !
My boss asked me to do some research on an upcoming project which will
mainly revolve around a website which serves as a central messaging
point among what is best described through an analogy with the
publishing world : article authors, article reviewers and journal
editors come together on a website on which the editors will send and
receive messages to and from authors and reviewers. These messages must
be answerable by mail, but also searchable via a web front end which
includes a lot more than only messages (for instance it will include
article-status or reviewer history, etc etc)
my first job is to figure out which backend to use on the server so that
we can have a system that nicely archives all messages and can talk via
POP/IMAP, but is also smoothly integrated into a bigger content. So here
goes the question : is DBMail fit for this ? Or is DBMail not intended
as a backend for a web-frontend (what a scentence...) ? Would DBmail be
an overkill ? Or perhaps not easy enough to integrate into a website ?
Well that wasn't the orig idea behind DBMail, but I would think that it would be
pretty well suited to that simply because of the database backend. So long as
your app had database access, you could query the DB directly or generate static
pages to index from the content.
On the flip side an email system like courier or cyrus could also be indexed...
although you might have more issues with cleaning out header information.
DBmail developers might be able to give you a better sense of how to index the
body of each message....
Good luck with that, cool idea!
sorry if this is a silly question, but the documentation on the website
isn't really clear to me on this matter...
many thanks in advance !
Jeroen
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