On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Rick McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 :-)).
the IMAP implementation is reasonable complete but not production ready now > 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. sounds like a good offer to me :-) - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
