James (a.k.a Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server) is a 100% pure Java SMTP and POP3 Mail server, and NNTP News server designed to be a complete and portable enterprise mail/messaging engine solution based on currently available open messaging protocols.

Is 100% pure java capable of running on Java 1.4 onwards
Integrates protocols
- Email
  - SMTP
  - POP3
    - Outgoing server
    - Incoming from POP3 accounts (FetchMail)
  - IMAP (James 3)
    - Server
    - Sieve filtering into IMAP mailboxes for incoming mail
- NNTP (better known as news)
Is based on open standards
Is a mailet container. Processing is delegated to independent, extensible, pluggable agents specified by the Mailet API. Any function which is not already available (from James or from a third party) can be developed.
Is a modular, component based IoC mail platform
- Based on mature, production proved Apache Excalibur components
- James 2 (production) uses the Avalon framework. Avalon development has now stopped but the framework is mature, stable and of proved production quality.
- James 3 (development) supports Spring and is moving towards OSGI
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