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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: mysql as a backend
Date: 10 Nov 1999 06:21:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k8nq1l6l.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew J Cosgriff's message of "Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:58:44 GMT"

>>>>> "ajc" == Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au> writes:

ajc> john s anderson wrote :
>> I've done a small bit of preliminary noodling on implementing a
>> SQL-based mail archive. I was planning on making it
>> non-MUA-specific, so that if something better than Gnus came along
>> (inconceivable!), switching my MUA wouldn't affect my mail
>> archiving. (I've been burned on that before, with the
Postilion-> Gnus switch I did some months ago.)

ajc> Make it talk IMAP then ? :)

Hey, now there's a thought.  An IMAP-server-daemon in Perl that speaks
DBI on the back end.  Doable, *and* general purpose!

Is the nnimap: ready for prime-time?

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-10 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-09 17:31 Randal L. Schwartz
1999-11-09 17:48 ` john s anderson
1999-11-10  9:58   ` Andrew J Cosgriff
1999-11-10 14:21     ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
1999-11-10 14:39       ` Steinar Bang
1999-11-10 15:29       ` Justin Sheehy
1999-11-11  8:46         ` Andrew J Cosgriff
1999-11-11 15:03       ` Kim-Minh Kaplan
1999-11-11 16:27         ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
1999-11-12  8:28           ` Tibor Simko
1999-11-12  5:13       ` john s jacobs anderson
1999-11-09 17:57 ` Eric Marsden
1999-11-09 18:31 ` Kai Großjohann

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