Re: Native dbmail mail client

Yeah i was thinking of adding some commands to POP (for selecting, 
deleting and adding folders). This could fit between the 'extended' 
protocol capabilities of POP. I'm going to think about it some more :)

To reply to all :

The big problem with imap is that the protocol is totally grown out of 
shape. The irony is that only 20% of the functionality of imap as a 
commandset is being used by 80% of the mailclients. The Imap server is 
doing a lot stuff that isn't even nescessary for most clients and that 
takes time. That why i wanted to create a native client that does 
nothing more than required using fast, dbmail-structrured queries. I 
think speed improvement over imap would be more than 250%.

Best regards,

Eelco

On 5-jan-04, at 20:51, Micah wrote:

>
> I don't see how it's possible without writing a server daemon that has 
> access
> to the database. Otherwise the client will have access to everyone's 
> mail.
>
> Once you start doing that, you're almost reinventing the wheel, so why 
> bother?
> I would bet if you gave it some thought you could make a server that 
> was
> faster than pop or imap, but is it worth it?
>
> What about including some dbmail specific commands for the existing 
> pop server
> that would take advantage of capabilities of the system. Your client 
> could
> use them, but the overall server would still be compatible with the pop
> standard (or IMAP for that matter..)
>
> my half a cent..
> -Micah
>
> On Mon January 05 2004 11:25 am, Eelco van Beek - IC&S wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I want to create a native dbmail client. Not a webbased client but a
>> full e-mail application for both windows and os X. My main problem is
>> authentication. Since i won't be using pop or imap i don't really know
>> how to handle authentication. The MySQL authentication meganism won't
>> suffice since it only authenticates on Tables, not on rows..
>>
>> I've been thinking about this for quite a long time but i don't see a
>> real solution (except to create an intermediate language. The problem
>> with that is that some new wheels are needed to be re-invented..).
>>
>> Anybody?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Eelco
>>
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