By ‘mail lists’, I assume you mean that by addressing mail to server-user@james.Apache.org, you would effectively send that message to everyone who subscribes to that mailing list. As an out of the box solution, you’re right that such a list is not explicitly implemented, but you do have an option. You could probably use the experimental matchers with little issue. The main reason they are marked as ‘experimental’ is that nobody has bothered to thoroughly test them yet, as that is a seldom-used functionality. If you try them out and run into issues, report them and they can be fixed, but there is a backlog of issues that need work, and unused features are lower priority than more commonly used ones - we may not like it, but it is a simple fact of life (ever hear the expression “The squeaky wheel gets the grease?”). I will be happy to look at this with you if the other devs are too busy.
On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 10:29 PM Marc Chamberlin <m...@marcchamberlin.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello - I am still limping along with James 2.3.2 and every year or two I > come back to the Apache James website to see if mail lists are supported > yet with the appropriate mailets and matchers necessary, in the latest > version of Apache James. And every year or two I am disappointed that the > documentation for mailets and matchers has not changed and it appears that > only a couple of experimental matchers are supplied as part of the standard > set of mailets. Not having support for mail lists is a show stopper for > me/us and for a number of other reasons I would like to upgrade our servers > to the current version of James, but can't. > > My questions are, is mail lists feature ever going to be supported by > James, if so what is the expected ETA, or should I give up on James and > invest my time and energy in some other mail server? Is there undocumented > support for mail lists that I don't know about? It seems weird that only a > couple of matchers are supplied and even weirder still that the James team > is apparently not using it's own current server to support it's own mail > list for this list - server-user@james.apache.org! > > Thanks in advance for thoughts and suggestions! Marc C > -- > > *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* > > *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . > . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ > _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ > _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * > > Computers: the final frontier. > These are the voyages of the user Marc. > His mission: to explore strange new hardware. > To seek out new software and new applications. > To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! > > (*This email is digitally signed and the electronic signature is > attached. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email > indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, > which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - > https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=m...@marcchamberlin.com > <https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=m...@marcchamberlin.com> or just ask me > for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand > all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore > the signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if > you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like.*) >
