Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > C has it's benefits. For sure. But also it's drawbacks. :-)
> First. It's what dbmail is written in. > Second, you can easily include C libraries in many other languages: > Perl and Ruby are two that come to mind. > > From these you have the options of going do CGI, FCGI, mod_perl, CLI or > desktop > UI's. I'm not familiar with PHP (PHP3 was my last), but I am not certain > that it has the overall flexibility that C offers. We are currently at PHP5 and targeting PHP6. Maybe you should review it again. :-) PHP5 is more comparable to Java and C++. > You have to be careful about defining the application space that libdbmail > is > supposed to manage that IMAP/SMTP doesn't already. Otherwise we're back to > my > running INSERT statements from my desktop to delivering email to you... > ;) Like i said already. You need to define your target. Until you have not defined your target, you can not judge which is the right tool to reach your target. In the PHP world it's very to use a PHP based class to do something and it is very much work to get a extension compiled and installed on different computers. A PHP based class can be used easily on any webserver running PHP. That's good if you want to write a web based dbmail management tool for example. If you like to write some command line tools it might be easier to use libdbmail. But currently i'm not aware about any functionality, which is not covered by dbmail-utils and friends. But maybe my view might be limited. :-) As you see, it just depends on your target. That's what i would like to say. -- Lars Kneschke Metaways Infosystems GmbH Pickhuben 4 20457 Hamburg Germany eGroupWare Training & Support ==> http://www.egroupware-support.net E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.metaways.de Tel: +49 (0)40 317031-21 Fax: +49 (0)40 317031-81 Mobile: +49 (0)175 9304324
