JAMES Version 2.0a1 is now available at http://jakarta.apache.org/james/.
There is very little documentation in this release, but it is significantly faster and is (hopefully) more stable than 1.2.1. If you are familiar with JAMES, we encourage you to try it out and let us know what you think. We will be resolving known issues and adding features before final release including: - regex matchers - classloading (support loading mailets/matchers from apps/lib directory) - removing experimental IMAP from default configuration - better messages and handling of configuration problems - graceful mailet shutdown - documentation Many changes and contributions went into this new release. Here is a long list of what changes we were able to write down: - Moved to Avalon snapshot of 9-25-2001. - Added NNTP service. - SMTP AUTH support - Support null senders, i.e., MAIL RCPT: <> - Converted Town mail and user repositories to straight JDBC ones, using Excalibur connection pooling and configurable SQL statements per DB. - Messages are no longer loaded until absolutely necessary. - Fixed exception being thrown on MailAddress parsing. - Rebuilt CVS tree after hack and moved src to src/java. - Added a whole bunch of related RFCs to the webdocs. - Add date to bounced emails. - Updated DNS library and started process to move it to Avalon service. - More checks to fix "stuck file" problem in Avalon mail repository. - Limit the size of a message on reception (rather than waiting until processors). - Fixed dot-stuffing in SMTP reception/delivery. - Improved how Return-Path and Received headers are generated during SMTP reception. - More efficient remote delivery code, better error messages, and gateway parameter to route all messages to a single target. - Fixed timezone bug in RFC822DateFormat - Patch to support username@[yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy] addresses - Patch to fix size calculation from headers Serge Knystautas Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites http://www.lokitech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
