Jeremy Your current solution sounds like lots of maintenance. I am a james newbie as well. I downloaded it and configured it a few days ago. Since Ive had no problems but Im the only one using it and Im just using it to send the occasional email and collect listserv mail. Im leery of switching over to it "full time" as well. Im interested to know how the rest of you use it?
One of the things that scares me a little is that it is running like a program and not a service. If my machine crashes for some reason it will not start james when it comes back up. Are any of you using it on Windoze? Can I set it up to run as a service on Win2k? Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeromio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:06 PM Subject: Production use?(long, probably annoying) > I know that the stock answer to this question is > likely to be "Don't do it", but I definately get the > impression that people ARE using James for real email. > > I have a small server with about 15 users. Currently > using a hodgepodge of qmail, courier Imap, vmailmgr > and some custom scripts on a RH6.2 system. It's a less > than ideal setup and I can't do what I want with it. > > I als have an existing webservlet app running that > uses jdk1.2, jdbc2 and postgresql with jserv. I had > some trouble switching my servlet code over to Tomcat > and jdk1.3, but that was about 6months ago (it sort of > worked, but there were some problems so I switched it > back). I mention this because I wory about collisions > with multiple jdks and classpaths, etc. I need to > migrate it over, but I don't look forward to it. I > also have a pretty bad track record for getting > opensource things running on my system (can't get > ezmlm to work for example and Jetspeed sucked up about > a month of my time before I gave up - not sure if its > my approach or just bad luck). Mail is pretty > important. I don't want to miss any messages nor do I > want any of the people using my system to be griping > me out. > > I am very interested in creating some mail based apps > as well as just making mail work better on my system > (storing everything in a postgres db, making config > easier - adding some servlets so that users can easil > config their own stuff). I would then want to (since I > don't see it) contribute some code for web based > email, list configuration, and mobile phone/SMS type > things. There are a few systems out there, but I want > to use one that uses a db, lets me have source, and I > prefer Java, so, James seems perfect. > > I see traffic about problems with virtual domains and > I see that IMAP is very alpha. So, in order to go full > production, I'll either have to wait for these things > to get resolved, or jump in myself. > > My plan is to install James in parallel. Meaning > that I will use env vars that, for eg, point it to the > jdk1.3 that I have installed (as opposed to the > jdk1.2), make it use a different port than 23, etc. > When (if) I am satisfied that it works, I will attempt > to migrate over. Can anyone offer any advice on the > feasibility of this plan? > > Also, as far as migration (when I get to that step), > I'm going to have to not only migrate over all the > various .qmail files, but I'll also have to move the > maildir files into the db. I'm weak on scripting, so > I'll most likely write some utils for this in Java > (unless there already are some??). Anything I should > watch out for? > > Any advise, comments or even ridicule is > welcome. Thanks. > > - Jeremy > (jeromio.com) > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
