I'm thinking of building an email server in pure PHP. Why ? Because I don't know much C, C++ or Java. Because I find current mail server to be hard to setup (Postfix/Exim/Sendmail + Dovecot/Courier + ClamAV + Antispam + this and that...). Then you have to get into complicated config files that use yet another syntax. And also because I'd like to address some privacy issues the current mail servers have.
Now I know PHP might cause performance issues. But I think it could be a good way to build a very functional email server.
Also, using PHP would make the server easy to maintain, due to its much higher level than C, accessible to a lot of people easily
What do you think of the idea?
Conrad
