Hello Ioan,
Thanks for the links.
Aladin

On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Ioan Eugen Stan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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