What are the advantages of RoundCube?

[IT_Architect]

It appears RoundCube requires MySQL. I'm trying to understand why that would be, and what the advantages are.

 

[scsi]

Why does it matter its no diff then any other webmail program. Thats how it was designed so thats that.

 

[IT_Architect]

Why does it matter its no diff then any other webmail program. Thats how it was designed so thats that.

I matters a lot obviously. I matters if the messages are stored in both the directory and db and somehow coordinated. Perhaps it stores just the structure for the user and the messages are actually in directories. It changes everything as far as how much space you need to reserve. It may or may not affect server load, depending on how the database is used. Maybe I can make a cron job that deletes everyone's mail on the server that is more than 30 days old so it can help from a maintenance perspective. Maybe I can do fail over or load balancing of e-mail using MySQL 5.1s row level replication. Of course it matters.

 

[scsi]

Mail is not stored in the db at all. It uses imap. Db stores settings for the webmail. User preferences, Address books, etc. Same as squirrelmail does but they use a trillion data files instead.

 

[IT_Architect]

Mail is not stored in the db at all. It uses imap. Db stores settings for the webmail. User preferences, Address books, etc. Same as squirrelmail does but they use a trillion data files instead.

Now we're talking, and that is huge and useful.

Thanks,
Jack