On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:25:41PM +0100, Eelco van Beek - IC&S wrote: > 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..
What features are you looking to add that aren't supported by imap? I think there's plenty of room for performance improvement in the imap server. xn