James - Enterprise Mail Server

James (a.k.a Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server) is a 100% pure Java SMTP and POP3 Mail server, and NNTP News server designed to be a complete and portable enterprise mail/messaging engine solution based on currently available open messaging protocols.

• Is 100% pure java capable of running on Java 1.4 onwards
• Integrates protocols
  • Email
    • SMTP
    • POP3
      • Outgoing server
      • Incoming from POP3 accounts (FetchMail)
    • IMAP (James 3)
      • Server
      • Sieve filtering into IMAP mailboxes for incoming mail
  • NNTP (better known as news)
• Is based on open standards
• Is a mailet container. Processing is delegated to independent, extensible, pluggable agents specified by the Mailet API. Any function which is not already available (from James or from a third party) can be developed.
• Is a modular, component based IoC mail platform
  • Based on mature, production proved Apache Excalibur components
  • James 2 (production) uses the Avalon framework. Avalon development has now stopped but the framework is mature, stable and of proved production quality.
  • James 3 (development) supports Spring and is moving towards OSGI
• Support to create mailing list