Anthony Eden wrote:
>
> We are testing JAMES at our company (Signature Domains, Inc.
> [http://www.signaturedomains.com/]) for two purposes:
>
> 1.) Email forwarding. We have already written a simple mailet which looks
> in our MySql database for the incoming email address and then switches the
> address to a different address.
>
> 2.) As a general SMTP server. We are using JAMES for general SMTP
> communication. We are also going to implement a mailet which archives all
> incoming messages to our database.
Great!
> One more thing: I would REALLY love to see JAMES work with IMAP. Any
> thoughts on when this may occur?
I'm not sure... the POP3 interface seems to still have a few bugs, but
is coming together. With the MailRepository and UserManager solidified
from this work, IMAP4 has some good building blocks it can leverage.
One problem though is the complexity of the IMAP4 protocol as commands
happen asynchronously (you can send multiple commands at once and
response are intermingled, associated with the appropriate command based
on a command prefix). Another problem I think is performance searching
through messages as the MailRepository is not really geared to IMAP4
searching. These are issued that can get addressed, but especially the
protocol part will not be easy. I'd love to have IMAP4 support as like
I said, this is what we use (a Netscape mail server right now). The
biggest obstacle right now is simply volunteers. Once JAMES has a final
release, I think we'll get more users, and then hopefully more code
contributors. (we've already seen a nice growth over the past 2 months
since the beta was put out) Federico and I haven't had much time this
year to push JAMES forward as fast as we want, so the IMAP4
implementation will probably have to come from someone else. Anyone out
there want to take a crack at it?
Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies
http://www.lokitech.com/
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