>>>> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that >>>> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only >>>> for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. >>>> >>>> - Grant >>>> >>> I don't think you'll find anything faster except maybe written in C, >>> which >>> is doubtful. The only other language you might find webmail written in is >>> Perl/CGI and that is definitely not faster in my experience. PHP is about >>> as >>> good as you will get IMHO. >> >> I actually don't mean to speed up squirrelmail and PHP. The main >> function of that system is to run a website in perl, and I thought I >> might be bogging down apache2 a bit just by opening it up to PHP >> interpretation (-D PHP). Is that the case? It would also be nice not >> to be exposed to PHP exploits. It just seems kind of silly to >> maintain and run PHP just for webmail. >> >> - Grant >> > > Adding -D PHP makes your memory footprint larger, but unless you're > actually using PHP that's the only side affect of loading it. If you're
Maybe PHP isn't so bad then. > concerned about security, make sure you're using the sushosin USE variable > and keeping PHP and Squirrelmail up to date. Regardless of which language or > mail package you use you're going to have to keep them updated. A daily 'emerge --sync && emerge -avDuN world' is on my list of favorite things to do. > One other thing to think about is whether or not finding a Perl > webmail system is going to make your life any easier. Say you do find one > and it installs a ton of Perl modules like all Perl applications. Some of > those will be updates of Perl modules that your actual site depends on which > may or may not break the site. Now you've got two applications to QA when > you update any Perl module that is a dependency of both. > > kashani Thanks for the advice and it sounds like running PHP isn't so bad after all. - Grant