A comment of Stefano's on the Geronimo integration thread reminded me of
an issue I had with the James servers while I was developing the
Geronimo javamail providers. Originally, I started out using James as
my test server for the providers, but sort of hit a wall when it came to
testing out the the different authentication mechanisms. I needed a
server that could support more than LOGIN and PLAIN authentication. For
a lot of things, I ended up using the GMAIL POP3 and IMAP servers. I
also had to set up and configure my own local FetchMail server for some
of the mechanisms (several weeks of my life I'd like to get back :-)).
Initially, I went with my own implementation of CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5
authentication mechanisms because I was writing this for the Geronimo
1.x releases, which ran on 1.4. Once we cut new development over to
Geronimo 2.x, Java 5 was now required, and our javamail impl could start
using the SASL API for authentication, which opened more possibilities
for authentication. Have there been any thoughts about doing the same
for James? This might be something I'd be interested in helping with,
since in the long run, it makes testing of the Java API easier to do.
Rick
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