Robert Tom wrote:
Richard Barrington <richard <at> freedomwigs.com> writes:
A DBMail native patch would indeed be sweet, but it seems that the root
of the problem is DBMail's lack of support for the Sort extension and
server-side threading.
So you mean that Dbmail with Sort extension and server-side threading
will be faster than Squirrelmail accessing the DBmail database
directly using mysql bypassing IMAP?
Maybe, if you figure that we are going to optimize DBMail for IMAP
access patterns. We certainly are not going to optimize DBMail for the
access patterns of specific web clients (though if there was one to do
it for it certainly would be SM).
The real issue here is that we are much better off in the long run if
DBMail is a really fast IMAP server. The development time required to
make SM natively access the DBMail database would be much better spent
adding the missing features to DBMail that make SM inefficient. Not to
mention the ongoing maintenance of keeping SM aware of DBMail schema
updates. There are good reasons to use standard interfaces such as IMAP.
Matthew
