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 > > > > -- > Ioan Eugen Stan / CTO / http://axemblr.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
