Thank you very, very much for this illuminating reply. The idea of a fully
configurable MTA, MDA, IMAP enabled Java server program (forgive me if I
left anything out or misstated) is going to turn out to be an *extremely*
important application (dare I say, *killer*?)...which is why I have joined
the list. I am still on the steep part of the learning curve, but am very
interested. All IMHO.
John
At 10:06 AM 6/8/01, you wrote:
>"John S. Gage" wrote:
> >
> > This is a very important question to me, because I was under the
> > impression that James was *not* a MTA. That, rather it was an IMAP
> > implementation that would work *with* just about any MTA.
> >
> > Guidance, please.
> >
> > John
> >
> > At 12:56 AM 6/8/01, you wrote:
> >
> > > Is JAMES as good as other popular mail servers such as Postfix,
> > > Sendmail, Qmail or is it still under development? I am looking for a
> > > mailserver written in JAVA and I would like to know if JAMES could
> > > take the same load as any other popular MTA's.
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > Abjin
>
>Yes to everything!
>James provides MTA and MDA functionality. It has IMAP server
>functionality but only in early alpha. For real-world use, use James as
>a POP3 server.
>James can manipulate emails to your custome desires - which is tricky to
>impossible with anything else.
>It is very much still under development - but it is in daily use.
>
>Here's a rough diagram of message flow in James
>
>Message receipt - SMTP on port 25 - by SMTPServer - deliver to
>MailEngine
>MailEngine - process messages using pairs of a matcher and a mailet
>(java classes). James comes with defaults but you can add your own.
>Local Delivery (ie MDA) - by LocalDelivery mailet to James' MailStore
>Remote Delivery (ie MTA transmit) - by RemoteDelivery mailet
>POP3Server - on port 110 - POP3 access to MailStore
>
>Hope that helps
>Charles
>
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