Hi Benoit,

On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 11:54 +0700, Benoit Tellier wrote:
> While working on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-3431 I
> discovered that JMS & File mailqueue do still rely on serialization.
> 
> This is what motivates to re-open this ticket:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-2578
> 
> Please kindly note that all of the MailRepository implementation no
> longer uses Java serialization.
> 
> Our AttributeValue adoption is partial; I would like to finish the
> job.
> 
> Here are the options we have:
> 
>     Accept DSN feature do not work on tese implementations (not my
> prefered at all!)
>     Re-implement DSNParameters attribute mapping to not use
> collection
> attributeValues. This work around the main issue for this specific
> use
> case of attribute values. (I feel okay with that)
>     Try to fix collection attributeValue java serialization is likely
> hard to do, but also keeps java serialization around for longer in
> the
> code base. Likely a dead-end.
>     No longer rely on Java serialization for "JMS" & "File" mail
> queues.
> This means either smart fallback code, or at worst an upgrade path
> with
> an empty mail queue. That is by far my preferred option, and I will
> start community discussions in that direction.
> 
> Do we got consensus around this topic?

This Java serialization compat has been crippling our developpements
for too long. I'm in favor of complete removal and a migration
strategy.

Cheers,

-- Matthieu


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