Direct Access Webmail

[Guidance]

I tried many PHP webmail clients, found the speed is always not satisfied. I plan to write my own script as Xmail frontend via direct mail folder access, not via POP3 protocol, neither IMAP. I'm curious why nobody do that before? I hope this way can dramatically increase the speed. First of all, I must know the detail directory structure and file types Xmail used for win32 version. Currently, I only know

MailRoot\domains\<domain>\<user>\mailbox

is that user's inbox.

Questions:
1) Where should I make new directories as "trash","Sent", "drafts" etc. per user?
2) Is there a special place(directory) which is polled by xmail and if I put a mail file there, it will be sent out automatically?
3) Is it possible to set spam filter per user?

Thanks!
Guidance

[hschneider]

>First of all, I must know the detail directory structure and file types Xmail used for win32
Same as on Linux. See manual.

1. Best place should be in /domains/username/some_directory
2.

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XMAIL LOCAL MAILER     XMail has the ability to deliver locally prepared mail files that if     finds in the 'spool/local' directory. The format of these files is     strict:     mail from:<...>[CR][LF]     rcpt to:<...>[CR][LF]     ...     [CR][LF]     message text with [CR][LF] line termination     All lines must be [CR][LF] terminated, with one mail-from statement, one     or more rcpt-to statements, an empty line and the message text. Mail     files must not be created directly inside the '/spool/local' directory     but instead inside '/spool/temp' directory. When the file is prepared it     has to be moved into '/spool/local'. The file name format is:     stime-seqnr.pid.hostname     where:     stime         system time in sec from 01/01/1970.     seqnr         sequence number for the current file.     pid process or thread id.     hostname         creator process host name.     Example:     97456928-001.7892.home.bogus     XMail has a number of LMAIL threads that periodically scan the     '/spool/local' directory watching for locally generated mail files. You     can tune this number of threads with the '-Ln nthreads' command line     option. The suggested number ranges from three to seven.

3. Only per custom script hooked into filter.in.tab (see manual)

[Guidance]

Just before I start, and trying Mercury/32 mail server, I found IlohaMail webmail client --- it's really amazingly fast with its own IMAP library (not PHP built-in one)!
Everybody want a fast PHP webmail should take a look at IlohaMail I suggest!

http://ilohamail.org

I think it's not necessary to write such a program any more if we have IlohaMail ...

[hschneider]

Thanks for that hint ...