From: "BJ Freeman" <[email protected]>
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.
I did not thought about the production aspect, good point indeed!
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.
That's what I find interesting, more filters for spam is always better... I
know what I'm talking about...
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.
Actually the sole experience I have with a mail server was some years ago. It was on a Windows 2003 server (not my choice!) and I
had to use Merak (now IceWarp) but without all the options. Most of the time it was cool, but sometimes a nightmare (especially when
users don't want to understand about spam).
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
I think I have to read the RFC in details because my knowledge is limited to what I used with Merak (which is already a good
start...)
Thanks BJ!
Jacques
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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
