That's why we try stay away from the bleeding edge technology -- there's a reason they use the word "bleeding". It will actually be easier for us to use a flat file than to use a database.I agree that the flat files work well for Junkmail itself. However, a web GUI will be very hard to do without the 'masters' kept in a database. Without a database you'll run into file locking problems and it will be harder to deal with single records.
> use IIS (a lot of people don't want to use it, for security reasons).This is pretty much a moot point as both IIS and Apache have the same security risks. IIS just gets more press.
<G> We won't use Apache either.
> or any special technologies (such as dot NET, ASP, CF, etc.). We would need to create something
> that would work on all servers, and not have any special requirements.
That's going to be hard.
Not for us. <G>
Sorry, I should have included PHP in that list (which is amazingly flexible, BTW). We're not talking about something the typical pre-bubble "We need to show them something to collect our $10 million funding" company would produce. We actually wrote a web scripting language well before ASP was available, and wrote our first web server back when people thought that dynamic content on a web page was a web page that was updated by hand every few hours.You really only have two choices that could cover most of the bases. ASP or PHP both are available in the Win and Unix worlds. Win32 admins will prefer ASP.
If we require ASP or PHP, we're going to require something that a number of our customers either don't have or won't have. Many of our customers would not even think of installing IIS or Apache on a mailserver.
-Scott
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