James is a multi-protocol message processing and storage engine. James currently consists of:

• two mail prototcol servers (SMTP and POP3),
• a remote administration server,
• an NNTP server,
• a mail processing engine that supports the Mailet API
• file-system message storage and a message storage interface to RDBMS's
• file-system user record storage and an experimental interface to LDAP directories
• support for TLS (SSL) for POP3 and remote administration
• support for SMTP auth

James is built on top of Avalon, the Java Apache Server Framework. Versions 2.0 of James use a date-snapshot of Avalon code as of November 2001. The lib directory includes date-stamped jars of the various Avalon libraries. We intend to stay current with new versions of Avalon as they are released.