[afnog] vexim (support)

[Sunday Adekunle Folayan]

Brian Candler wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:41:01PM +0100, Sunday Adekunle Folayan wrote:
>   
>> Linnet is much more current, and loaded. The only thing lacking in 
>> linnet vs vexim is the php frontend. should not be a problem hacking the 
>> php portion of vexim to drive linnet. I am sure Brian C will appreciate 
>> such a contribution to Linnet, and will integrate it .. granted his 
>> schedule is not too tight changing diapers :-)
>> :-)
>>
>> Actually I've been trying to avoid including anything which depends on PHP,
>> because by the Linnet philosophy, I then have to include the whole of PHP in
>> the distribution, plus any add-ons that are required by those PHP apps.
>>
>> Maybe that will have to happen eventually though, if for example
>> squirrelmail goes in.

You may have to close your eyes, and bite the bullet.

> I haven't seen what vexim does, but maybe similar functionality can be
> written in ruby/eruby, which already exists in Linnet. A web frontend to
> edit local_domains, userdb and LDAP would be a good start, I guess
>   
It is a good start. Is it something that can be done in ruby instead of 
php? Do pardon my ignorance when it comes to ruby. I am well past the 
age programmers retire, and learning a new language is not my idea of fun.

Regards ...

Sunday.