Apache James Learning Resources

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The plan is to create a list of Apache James learning resources, involving a wide a range of aspects from setting it up to using API from java.

If you read this and have some great tutorial at your fingertips, please drop a line or two.

I'll start with

The Official Apache James Wiki
an article by IBM: Working with James, Part 1: An introduction to Apache's James enterprise e-mail server

Which learning resources with Apache James as topic do you use on a regular basis or which do you think excel in some way? — f4lco, Jun 21 '11 at 10:20
the documentation seems lacking on this topic: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10848285/james-not-picking-up-mysql-connector-jar](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10848285/james-not-picking-up-mysql-connector-jar) — Thufir, Aug 17 '12 at 05:28
how about explaining [how to access messages](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8961365/unable-to-send-mail-to-outside-domain-using-localhost-as-a-host-via-apache-james?rq=1) from James? — Thufir, Aug 23 '12 at 10:32

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 21 '11 at 15:36

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answered Nov 21 '11 at 15:36

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 07 '16 at 22:16

For version 3, here is the best I have found so far :

http://james.apache.org/server/3/config.html (not very helpful, but it is something)

http://www.mail-archive.com/server-user@james.apache.org/ (see questions of others)

https://james.apache.org/mail.html (mailing lists - when no docs are available, bugging people may help or force them to write more documentation... Although even that doesn't seem to work with Apache...)

If I manage to make it work the way I want, I might put some instructions here as well.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 26 '17 at 08:27

I'm PMC of James project.

We are working on making running James easier. So far :

We managed to make running it easier by providing docker images (Have a look to dockerfiles on github and https://hub.docker.com/r/linagora/james-jpa-guice/ (for instance) for automatically built image... )
We also made a CI system available for potential contributors : https://github.com/linagora/james-jenkins
We are working hard to a new website, more appealing, and that better present the project.

I understand your concerns, and actually think myself the documentation and communication of the project is a bit unfriendly.

I bielieve that some tutorial might help. Could you please :

Specify which use cases you are targetting (SMTP relay, IMAP server, integration of other applications with e-mails) and we can try to provide "tutorials".
Don't hesitate to contribute to the project. On the mailing list. Or with contributions to the website.
The right place to have such discussions is IMO the Apache James user mailing list.

Cheers,

Benoit

Apache James Learning Resources

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