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On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:04:31 -0800 |
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Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that |
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> >> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed |
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> >> only for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. |
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> >> - Grant |
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> > I don't think you'll find anything faster except maybe written in |
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> > C, which is doubtful. The only other language you might find |
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> > webmail written in is Perl/CGI and that is definitely not faster in |
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> > my experience. PHP is about as good as you will get IMHO. |
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> I actually don't mean to speed up squirrelmail and PHP. The main |
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> function of that system is to run a website in perl, and I thought I |
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> might be bogging down apache2 a bit just by opening it up to PHP |
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> interpretation (-D PHP). Is that the case? It would also be nice not |
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> to be exposed to PHP exploits. It just seems kind of silly to |
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> maintain and run PHP just for webmail. |
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You could try running a second webserver instance for the webmail, |
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allowing the main one to run without PHP loaded. |
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RobbieAB. |
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