Benoit Tellier created JAMES-3781:
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Summary: As a user I want to enforce explicit configuration
Key: JAMES-3781
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-3781
Project: James Server
Issue Type: Bug
Components: guice
Reporter: Benoit Tellier
This one is a fun one!
h1. The postmortem
One of my customer complained of missing emails. After investigations, we found
that some emails for al...@domain.org where delivered in #private:alice:INBOX
instead of #private:al...@domain.org:INBOX. We then realized that on some James
servers of the cluster were configured with virtualhosting off while
virtualhosting should have had been on. We then realized the configuration
files were moved by an admin. The faulty James servers were not able to locate
their configuration files and thus according to JAMES-2004 resorted to the
default value with virtualhosting off.
Implicit configuration is nice to ease James onboarding.
But as an operator I would like to have the option to enforce explicit
configuration, and have the safety associated with it.
h1. Proposal
Have a JVM property, disabled by default to fail if a configuration file is
missing.
`-Djames.fail.on.missing.configuration.file`
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