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An Enterprise Mail Server

James Server is a stable, mature and production ready email server.

A Modular Mail Platform

Developers looking for a modular mail platform on which to build should start by looking at the modules and libraries used to compose James Server 3.x.

• JAMES Server 3
  • Is an advanced fully functioned integrated mail server
  • Is a mailet container, delegating to independent processing agents known as mailets
  • Is modular
  • Supports Spring and is moving towards OSGi
  • Retains the mature, production ready Apache Excalibur components used by Avalon
  • Supports the following protocols:
    • SMTP
    • NNTP (better known as news)
    • POP3
    • IMAP (see the IMAP sub-project)
• The Mailet subproject collects products related to mailets (mail processing components analogous to servlets). These are independent of the JAMES server and can be reused in any mailet container.
  • The Mailet API specifies mailets
  • The Mailet Basic Toolkit collects utilities and lightweight frameworks useful for developing and testing mailets
  • Standard Mailets collects general processing mailets with limited dependencies
  • Crypto Mailets collects mailets which perform cryptographic processing such as signing, encrypting, decrypting and signature verification.
• jSPF implements SPF
• Mime4J parses MIME typed documents (including - but not limited to - mail). APIs similar to DOM, SAX and pull parsers are exposed.
• jSieve implements the Sieve mail filtering language
• Postage generates mail traffic suitable for stress testing mail servers
• MPT is a scripted functional test tool suitable for testing mail protocols.