>>To be clear, the threading example was just something off the top of my head, That is OK, since I just skimmed the example and saw problems with Apache/PHP s

>>To be clear, the threading example was just something off the top of my head, That is OK, since I just skimmed the example and saw problems with Apache/PHP std lib. It was just stupid. Lots of people use those -- and bugs are killed fast. In absolute worst case, use an external program in another language for this. (Processes or threads doesn't matter.) That works, since IMAP4 was new and shiny in the mid 90s(!) -- in the non-MS world, we don't replace functioning standards all the time so there are multiple implementations out there for e.g. email libs... >>I'm pretty confused as to why these comments have been downvoted so much. Because you only know one side of things -- and believe the propaganda about the other side.