Re: Webmail client

Mark Overmeer <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:16:15 +0100

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* Mitar ([email protected]) [041228 00:50]:
> I have been thinking long about making a webmail in Perl with
> extensive use of Mail::Box.

Last week there was a debate about this as well.  Tom Allison is
building something like that, on the moment, using HTML::FromMail
and IMAP.

Keep in mind that MailBox is meant to do e-mail batch-processing,
so your performance may be less that you wished for.  I have a
developed a fast cluster optimized folder type recently based on
MailBox, however that isn't open source/free (yet)

> Is it good idea to use Mail::Box for webmail which would read local
> maildir mailboxes and display them.

Maildir is the best choice, presumably.  You will need to implement
some "keep folder open" caching, but it is very well doable.
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               MarkOv

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