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processing of electronic messages.
James implements the Mailet API, and as such is itself a platform for
-Mailet applications. Applications providing custom mail
+Mailet applications. Mailet applications include providing custom mail
processing, such as list servers, or providing gateways into other
systems, messaging systems such as NNTP, SMS or proprietary messaging,
or insertion into non-standard storage media.
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
bylaws and guidelines.
As James consists primarily of the server which is an end-user product
-we feel that top level project status, emphasisng its function rather
+we feel that top level project status, emphasizng its function rather
than its platform, would suit James well. Top level project status
-would also facilitate the ability to offer the Mailet API as an
+would also facilitate the ability to offer the Mailet API as a
separate specification, of which James would represent only a
reference implementation.
@@ -65,16 +65,16 @@
Project Management:
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-James has a small yet mature self-sustaining community, we seldom seek
-recourse to the Jakarta PMC, and equally seldom are we scrutinised by
+James has a small yet mature self-sustaining community. We seldom seek
+recourse to the Jakarta PMC, and equally seldom are we scrutinized by
them. We are perhaps not the most active project, and some of us may
feel that this sometimes causes James to be disregarded. Likewise,
apart from Avalon, we have few direct ties with other jakarta projects.
We believe that normalizing our relationship with the ASF Board
-by becoming reporting directly rather than through the Jakarta PMC, and
+by reporting directly rather than through the Jakarta PMC, and
taking official control of all the issues we currently inherit and
-"interpret" from Jakarta would benefit James.
+"interpret" from Jakarta, would benefit James.
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Profile:
@@ -116,11 +116,12 @@
increasing fault tolerance across the board.
2/ To promote the Mailet API as a standard API (providing portability
-to mail specific code) to all Java projects involved with processing
+to mail-specific code) to all Java projects involved with processing
email both OS and commercial, this will involve further isolating the
Mailet API from any dependence on James or James' dependencies. And to
continually support, refine and enhance the Mailet API in response to
-feedback from Mailet API users and Mailet developers.
+feedback from Mailet API users and Mailet developers, for example to
+cover message domains other than e-mail.
3/ To build on James' Mailet packages in order to provide more, and
more sophisticated, behaviors which would be available to any
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@
commercial and open source competitors such as Microsoft Exchange, or
ezmlm.
- Implementing a number of related services defined by RFC's, such as
-the email aspects of iCalendar, vCard to name but two.
+the email aspects of iCalendar and vCard to name but two.
- And offering greater interoperability with other mail applications,
such as sendmail.
@@ -152,20 +153,20 @@
success of James is no longer dependent on his continued
participation.
-Our developer community includes a number of Avalon contributers and
+Our developer community includes a number of Avalon contributors and
committers, and a number of people who are working with or on James in
a commercial setting.
-Our user base is hard to quantify, but includes a wide cross section
+Our user base is hard to quantify, but includes a wide cross-section
of different classes of users, from individuals through small
enterprises looking for big enterprise mail functionality, commercial
users adapting James or using James to provide bespoke services
through to students using James in their course work.
We believe that this represents a healthy interest in James, and the
-fact that James continues to be of interest to so many groups inspite
+fact that James continues to be of interest to so many groups in spite
of the existence of email server software with much higher profiles,
-sendmail, Microsoft Exchange etc, is perhaps better proof of its worth
+sendmail, Microsoft Exchange, etc., is perhaps better proof of its worth
than is its market share in comparison with those goliaths.
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