Setup Apache James

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Contents 1 Required Downloads 2 Required Tools 3 Configuring James 4 jmanage.properties

Required Downloads

Following downloads are required for running James:

- Apache James can be downloaded from http://james.apache.org/download.cgi

- JavaMail API can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/index.jsp

- JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/jaf/index.jsp

Required Tools

- JDK 1.3.1 or higher

- Ant (included in the source distribution for James)

Configuring James

- Start James server using run.bat or run.sh. These run scripts can be found in james-2.1.2/bin directory. When you run the script the output will look like:

 Using PHOENIX_HOME: D:\James\james-2.1.2
 Using PHOENIX_TMPDIR: D:\James\james-2.1.2\temp
 Using JAVA_HOME: c:\programming\java14
 
 Phoenix 4.0.1
 
 James 2.1.2
 Remote Manager Service started plain: 4555
 POP3 Service started plain: 110
 SMTP Service started plain: 25
 NNTP Service started plain: 119
 Fetch POP Disabled

- Now shutdown the server. A file config.xml gets created in james-2.1-2/apps/james/SAR-INF. This file can be used to change the administrator account and the DNS server address.

- Create a new user with username 'jmanage-alert'. For this,

  > Start James server
  > telnet to localhost on port 4555 with the command 'telnet localhost 4555'
  > Login using root username and password
  > Enter the command 'addUser jmanage-alert jmanage-alert'
  > Enter 'listUsers' command to check that the above user is created.
  > Enter 'quit' command to exit the remote manager.

jmanage.properties

Following are the default values in jmanage.properties for alerts email:

  alert.email.from.name=jmanage-alert
  email.host=localhost
  alert.email.from.email=jmanage-alert@localhost