RDMSMTP: Relational Database Management System Mail Transfer Protocol. That'll leave your jaws sore!
On 12/1/2006, "Robert Claeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hey, we can even make a protocol for that! Let's call it... uhm... SMTP. > > >On 1 Dec 2006, at 19:02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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 >> >_______________________________________________ >DBmail mailing list >[email protected] >https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > >_______________________________________________ >DBmail mailing list >[email protected] >https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
