On Tuesday 12 October 2004 11:05 am, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am Di, den 12.10.2004 schrieb Ken Jones um 17:50: > > On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:46 am, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > I think I remember a forwarded discussion about this (I don't read the > > > -devel list). > > > It requires an apache running as root, doesn't it ? > > > > No, that is why we build the vpopmail daemon. > > Ah-yes. That sounds good. > Same principle as sqwebmail and sqwebmaild I assume. Pretty much but sqwebmail/d is alittle different. Since it is a cgi-bin program it can run as root. sqwebmail switched to a daemon to optimize initialization time. > > > The php programs > > do not require any special privilages. Instead, php makes a socket > > connection to vpopmaild which is running as root. php sends commands > > to vpopmaild who executes them and returns status. > > > > > > Anyone interested in contributing help to the project? > > > > > > Hm. Does it already "do" something ? > > > > Not yet, we are still working out the basic layout of the pages and > > the authentication pages. > > I'll take a look at the CVS then. Speaking of which, we will be setting up a CVS server to host the project. We will announce on this list when it is ready to go.
Ken
