Release Announcement

The Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server (a.k.a. Apache James) Project is happy to announce the release of version 2.3 of the Apache James server.

James is a 100% pure Java Mail and News server designed to be a complete and portable enterprise mail engine solution. James supports currently available IETF protocols, including SMTP,POP3 and NNTP , and it and IMAP are targeted for full functionality in v3). James is able to store user and message data either in a file-system or a JDBC-compatible database, allowing fast, reliable, even real-time replicated storage.

James provides a powerful, flexible mail application engine through support for the Apache Mailet API. With its Mailet pipeline architecture, James can be used not only to provide standard e-mail services, but also to implement custom e-mail applications.

The James mail server is deployed in production environments and has proven itself to be a robust and high performance mail solution. Tests indicate that version 2.3 is able to maintain a constant mail throughput rate of thousands of messages/minute for continuous periods.

The James Community is also happy to announce the beginning of the design phase for James version 3.0. Features tentatively slated for that version include enhancements to nearly every area of functionality, including full IMAP support, improved mailing list capabilities, fastfail support, smtp-api for developing own fastfail filters and the next revision of the Mailet API. This is expected to be an exciting time in James development. We are actively looking for eager, capable developers to contribute to James. If you're interesting in contributing to the James project, please subscribe to the James developer mailing list.

Information about James can be found at the James web site at http://james.apache.org/. Users interested in subscribing to the James user and developer mailings lists should send emails to server-user-subscribe@james.apache.org and server-dev-subscribe@james.apache.org, respectively