-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi tonyb, On 04 January 2001 at 13:00:07 +1300 (which was 00:00 where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points: tscn> OK Thanks for the Replies so far. Let me try and voice tscn> myself another way then with some more questions. tscn> Q1: Is there a Interface I can expose which will give me tscn> access to the Data? ie a Com Object? Not AFAIK. I am reposting this reply to the list in case any of the authors are reading and may care to say something. tscn> Q2. Is the Data stored in a proprietary format? Yes, although it is pretty easy to export the data to a UNIX standard MBX format. tscn> or is some kind of SQL Engine employed, and if so,does it tscn> conform to ANSI SQL Specification? No and No. tscn> Q3. If the Data is Only available through the Mail Client tscn> Program, then how can I access it in Real Time? Only by exporting the data to a medium in which it can be accessed in real time. tscn> Q4. Can the Data be stored in a central Database with many tscn> users attached, yet privacy guaranteed? TB has an Administrator/User mode distinctions and can refer to externalised mail-bases. It's not really fit for this though. tscn> As you can see, what we are really looking for is an Email tscn> Client that stores data in a proper Database. We will never tscn> ever again trust our data to a storage system that is not tscn> from a major Database Vendor eg Oracle, Interbase, Sybase, tscn> DB2, etc. It must do this real time. ie We are not tscn> interested in a system that stores the data primarily in a tscn> proprietary format, and relies apon filtered outputs to tscn> store the data in a proper manner. I dont consider MS to be tscn> a database vendor of any credibility. tscn> If Bat wont do this, then I am afraid it is not for us. tscn> Possibly I need to take the time to write my own Email tscn> Client App. It looks like that may be your only route. I have never heard of an email system (at least one based on an MUA) that stores email in a SQL standard database. Frankly and professionally I see little or no point. There is no advantage whatsoever to this. Sure, M$'s idea of a mailbase is not exactly robust nor clever, but to stuff email data into a bunch of SQL tables seems like a waste of space and opportunity. MUA mailbases are *so* much better able to handle, store, sort (relevantly), thread, nest, filter, categorise... the list goes on and on for me. It seems to me that you should be looking for a decent IMAP /server/ and letting *that* store your multi-user mail along with a strong IMAP client. Or perhaps an HTML base mail server, where the clients access their own areas of a communal mail system via a web browser. It would be nice to say "TB will do it for you", but it won't really. OTOH, I don't think you're looking at the issues 100% correctly and have been unfairly influenced in this by the poor behaviour of the M$ offerings in this arena. Just my 0.02p worth - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA ________________________________________________________________ [ PGP Key ID: 0x929DCDA0 | www: http://www.silverstones.com ] [ Any opinions are my own and not those of RIT labs ] TB! v1.49 Beta/2 S/N 1.49 Beta/2 on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Secured Comment: PGP Sealed for freshness iQA/AwUBOlPZXTnkJKuSnc2gEQLx0QCgump/VcCBaaLLzWxHxIPZuYdjPUkAn2GT lQcB4MReJQp8Op1/eROlCEpq =GxB0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed as : [email protected]
