But you miss the whole point of having an API in the first place. It gives you the means to simplay and SAFELY manage/munge the data without worrying about breaking business logic rules.
Of course it would be faster to write directly to the database. But for that matter, why am I sending you an email in this manner? Just send me the IP/Port and a username/password of your dbmail database and I'll just run the INSERT statements from here. ;) On 12/1/2006, "Joel Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I mean that if for example I wrote a webmail app, surely it would be >more efficient to take the data directly from the DB. If I wrote the app >in PHP, that would be very easy. > > > >Paul J Stevens wrote: >> Joel Moss wrote: >> >>> Sounds very interesting, but surely it would be more efficient to just >>> access the DB directly? >>> >> >> Of course not. Unless you assume the dbmail code is designed to be >> inefficient. >> >> Using libdbmail will give you full control, independent of the storage >> backend, authentication backend, schema changes, etc. >> >> >_______________________________________________ >DBmail mailing list >[email protected] >https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
