in todays society, its second nature to contact family, friends, and colleagues via e-mail. e-mail has become so integral to our daily ritual that we cannot stay away from it as we make use of personal digital assistants (pdas) and other pervasive devices to have it readily available. how do these billions of digital messages get to users across the globe?
a client/server setup is required to participate in the exchange of e-mails. it was just a few years ago that expensive server software packages were used for the typical e-mail solution. cheaper solutions have been plagued by a lack of robustness and scalability. to the avail of shrinking corporate budgets comes the java apache mail enterprise server (known as apache james).
apache james is a free, open source, robust offering from the apache software foundation that aims to provide enterprises with a java-based mail server solution. james provides a java api for developers to process e-mail services. in this article, well explore james and what it can offer your enterprise operation.
understanding e-mail
in the world of e-mail, the senders and recipients of messages act as clients to e-mail servers. senders create an e-mail using a mail user agent (mua) and transmit the message to an e-mail server using the simple mail transfer protocol (smtp). the e-mail server uses the same protocol... 下一页