From: Kevin J. Menard, Jr. (no email)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 09:56:47 EDT
Hey Catherine,
Wednesday, July 18, 2001, 6:23:07 AM, you wrote:
CR1c> I have come across mention in this list's archive about using a MySql
CR1c> database as a mail store for webmail, leaving IMAP out of the loop
CR1c> completely. Is this possible and, if so, what are the limitations? Anyone
CR1c> using such a setup?
IMAP is a protocol. MySQL is a RDBMs. I'm not seeing the relationship
here. Even if you could store your mail in MySQL, how would it get there,
or be retrieved? That's the idea of IMAP.
And what benefit would there be to having the mail in a MySQL database.
Seems like unneeded overhead to me.
-- Kevin
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