There are many considerations
My main one is human engineering.
So I ask myself
from a users point of view is is easier to have a external mail system
they can follow easily with a few config files or a system that requires
programming. That is a no brainer.
From a production point of view do I really want to stop and start
ofbiz to do mail maintainence. Answer No.
If you not going to use a Third party Mail service you don't need the
spam, virus, and other mail filtering that is already in James.
the RFC for mail server pretty much explain the basics.
However till you see the real world effort to misuse the mailserver or
spammer and those that want to Jam up the Internet, you don't appreciate
what James does.
Baically you set up a dns Mx record that point to the server with the
mailserver on it.
the Mail server usually uses standard port to receive the Ehlo and Helo
queries.
That is when the real world step in and starts to mess with you mail server.
Just as a side note I run 150 threads to handle the Ehelo ahd Helo
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BJ Freeman
Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation
<http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52>
Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/>
Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist
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Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 10/8/2010 9:10 AM:
From: "BJ Freeman" <[email protected]>
basically ofbiz will only work with one email account as it setup.
Form JavaMailContainer.java, it seems you can set many listeners.
So if you have many email accounts that are needed then james can be
configure to receive all these accounts and funnel then into one account.
I see. It's used as a mail client forwarding to the JavaMailContainer,
that's it?
I Still use MCA to route emails to other services like shippers
notification, Inventory updates from suppliers.
and IN my case I use it for multiple domains
It also provides the outgoing mail server without using someone else's
so you have your domain in the email instead of gmail or such.
though this last can be gotten from other services it is nice not to
have to pay for it.
Yes, sure!
Finally Since I provide POP3 and Imap service to email clients as well
it just makes it easier to handle emails in one place.
Thanks BJ
Jacques
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Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 10/7/2010 7:22 AM:
Hi BJ,
I saw some messages from you were you spoke about Apache James. I
understand that's it more powerful than MCA (notably for handling spam,
etc.), but I wonder how you use it exactly with OFBiz.
Because I see how you can retrieve emails from any server with OFBiz
JavaMail container but I wonder where you put James in this scheme.
Could you explain in few words, please?
Thanks
Jacques
