Hello Aladin,

Please see my response below.

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Aladin Dajani <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello List,
> WARNING: long-winded description below.
> I am building a web site that sends emails to users with respect certain 
> items in the application.  Users then may respond to the email, which should 
> result in updating the item.To give you an analogy, when you receive a 
> facebook e-mail notification of a post, you may respond to this email with a 
> comment that will be added to the post.
> From what I read about James, I think the mailet architecture would allow me 
> to write a custom mailet to process inbound email and then contact/run some 
> API against my application to update the item.
> Also, since my web app runs on Tomcat, I am interested in a mail server that 
> also runs on tomcat .
> The James download page contains several components, but little in terms of 
> explanation which I should download and how to put them all together.  Less 
> so regarding running on Tomcat.
> I downloaded what appears to be the source tree for building James as a Jar, 
> but when I added this as an eclipse project, there were several compilation 
> errors (e.g. unresolved reference to SocketFactory).
>
> First Question: Does James fit the bill for what I just described?

Yes, you can use James for that. I recommend you use James 3.

> Second Question:  Where can I find decent documentation describing how the 
> roles of various components and how they fit together and how to deploy James 
> on Tomcat.

See this thread and maybe others on the mailing list archive:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/james-server-user/201103.mbox/%3Cop.vsh7qfzz8335lu@localhost%3E

See documentation:  http://james.apache.org/server/3/index.html

> Third Question:  Is there any documentation for building James in eclipse?

This one is kind of old:
http://james.apache.org/server/3/dev-build.html ,  James App is a
project that builds the war and the zip available for distribution. It
depends on all other artifacts and downloads them from a repository
(remote or local).

Hope this helps,

> Thanks...
> Aladin



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