Hi Jerry, I stumbled upon James about 2 months back whilst looking for a mailserver for an ISP venture I am planning. My other main candidate at the time was Exim.
My initial reaction was exactly the same as yours - is James dead? And I posed that question to this list myself. A couple of months down the track, James certainly appears to be alive and kicking but I'm still looking at it through a cloudy window. I'm running 2.1.3 at the moment and it's showing potential as a good solution for me. At the moment I'm running it as an XP Service before eventually moving it to ( probably ) SuSE 9Pro. I think the message I would send back to the James Group is: It ALREADY is a pretty neat product. It APPEARS to have a future direction of enhancement which looks good. HOWEVER, I think you really need to cut a stable version of 2.2 and get that issued. Additionally, this list is very good at responding to questions - even from James-101s like me - but the documentation could do with some work. I think a practical user-guide would complement the reference material which is already there. In closing, none of this is meant to be critical - honest. It's meant to be objective and constructive. I am sure the James Group know all this stuff already - but it would be nice to have some indication of timeframe for the product evolution. Roy -----Original Message----- From: J Malcolm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 March 2004 17:24 To: 'James Users List'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Versions and Builds Sorry for my confusion. But things still aren't making sense: In the changelog, it says "Version 2.2.0 expected release June 2003" It also says "Version 2.1.3 released May 2003" If you click on James JavaDoc, it gives you javadoc for "James 3.0a1" It seems strange that the latest and greatest build is almost a year old, and it's been 10 months since the expected release of 2.2.0 (which apparently never happened) and Javadoc is for 2 major releases downstream from the "current". I found test build 2.2.0a15, but it's dated October 15, 2003, which is 5 months ago. Has development of james ceased? Can you clarify the version/release schedule for me? Thanks. Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------- [This message has been routed via James V2.1.3 on REBEX-MERCURY] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
