Hello Hiran,
although kind of late I still like to reply:
1) Which version to use?
IIRC the spring version is deprecated and subject to be removed in 4.0.
So the preferred version to use is the guice build.
Starting it requires a bit more effort than just call
<james>/bin/james start
as with the spring build.
For the jpa version please refer to
https://james.apache.org/server/install/guice-jpa.html
As for configuration: Yes, it takes a bit to bring them into a working
state. Unfortunate with the recent updates the documentation become a
bit rough for newcomers - the older versions had a lot more explaining
comments. As for current versions refer to
https://james.apache.org/server/config.html
You should be able to figure out what to change from a clean install to
get James working - but I recommend looking at these configs:
dnsservice
domainlist
imapserver
pop3server
smtpserver
and most important: mailletcontainer
2) Check for mails
By default the jpa-guice version uses a local derbyDB. As I use a
mysql/mariadb backend I can't tell you how to access and check the local
derbyDB but I'm sure others can.
As an overall starting point for jpa-spring with 3.8 on opensuse 15.5 I
refer to my last new-year mail:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/h96qbl975cof7474f4ybn2q1nhwbgk7f
Since I moved to opensuse 15.6 and switched over to guice-jpa and also
finally got the firewall to do the port redirection to have james not
run with root - but I don't have a complete write-up on hand.
If you still require help I can give you some input about my current setup.
A happy new year 2025 to everyone.
as always: greetings from germany
Matt
Am 23.11.24 um 02:04 schrieb Hiran Chaudhuri:
Hello there.
Every couple of years I need to develop some email-sending application,
and every time I simply install James to receive SMTP email and provide
it via IMAP to Thunderbird, where I can inspect and show the emails to
others.
This time, for the first time, I run into issues.
1) There is not one download file but three. No big explanation which is
which or when to choose which. So I decided for
james-server-jpa-guice.zip
<https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/james/server/3.8.1/james-server-jpa-guice.zip>.
But unfortunately I cannot run it - the whole bin directory is missing.
So I tried james-server-app-3.8.1-app.zip
<https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/james/server/3.8.1/james-server-spring-app-3.8.1-app.zip>.
Got it, the bin directory is there but many complaints come from the
default settings which are not yet good. Some hint in the readme is
helpful to generate keystore and launch James - but I remember never
having to read anything.
2) I brought up James, added a domain and a user. Both Thunderbird as
well as my application can send SMTP email to that user. At least I
believe so, as there are corresponding messages in the logs.
But when Thunderbird tries to refresh the incoming mails via IMAP the
folder is always empty. So I suspect something is fishy on the IMAP side.
Questions:
Could this effect be caused by my downloading the wrong distribution or
having the config not right?
How can I dump a user's the mailbox content just to make sure the inbox
contains my message?
What would be the way to troubleshoot IMAP in James? Can I increase the
log levels and get to these details?
Hiran
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