>> Look, it sounds like you really like JAMES and want to use JAMES, so go use 
>> JAMES <<

Tsk Tsk Andy.

Just because someone says he likes some design features of a competing piece of 
software is no reason to be so dismissive.

There are things I think I would like about using James, like its Mailet API. 
It seems a reasonable solution to the problem of what to do with an e-mail 
after it arrives. It's appears to be a flexible, AOP-like, all-Java way to 
build custom mail processing; i.e. scan it for viruses, scan it using Spam 
Assassin or other spam-detection methods, check for whether the recipient is a 
member of a hosted domain. store it or delete it, etc.

There are things I don't like about James, like its reliance on the now-defunct 
Avalon server framework instead of the well-known JMX and J2EE APIs.

However, I would caution against dismissing the James mail processing API (at 
least the design aspects like the interfaces) just because "it wasn't invented 
here".

If there are sound technical reasons why you don't like the Mailet API, I would 
still welcome a rational discussion about the benefits and flaws of the Mailet 
API as it might be applied to the JBoss Mail Server.  Since that's what this 
discussion has evolved to, I'm going to start a new thread soliciting views on 
the Mailet API's applicability to the JBoss mail server.

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