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| <title>Apache James Protocols Index</title> |
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| <section name="What is Apache James Protocols?"> |
| <p>The Apache James Protocols Project delivers a lightweight, |
| and highly extensible framework for mail protocols implementations.</p> |
| <p>The framework was build as a generic one, so its not bound to any socket implementation. |
| This make it possible to use it with NIO or IO Frameworks.</p> |
| <p>You can download James Protocols official release from the <a href="http://james.apache.org/download.cgi">download page</a>.</p> |
| </section> |
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| <section name="Apache James Protocols in Server and as Component"> |
| <p>The framework is currently used by James Server in conjunction with Netty to provide a |
| high performance and extensible <a href="smtp.html">SMTP</a>, |
| <a href="pop3.html">POP3</a> and <a href="imap4.html">IMAP4</a> Server.</p> |
| <p>At the moment those 3 standard mail protocols are included, but others will follow.</p> |
| </section> |
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| <section name='Develop with Apache James Protocols'> |
| <p>The <a href="source-code.html">source code</a> page contains information on how |
| to develop with James Protocols.</p> |
| <p>You can also read more on the way the James Server |
| uses James Protocols to <a href="http://james.apache.org/server/dev-extend-smtp-hook.html">Hook SMTP</a>.</p> |
| <img src="images/uml/org.apache.james.protocols-package.png"/> |
| </section> |
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| <section name="About the Apache Software Foundation"> |
| <p>Apache James is a project of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) which |
| encourages a collaborative, consensus-based development process under an |
| open software license.</p> |
| <p>The ASF maintains other Java projects which may also be of interest. |
| These are detailed on the ASF Projects page.</p> |
| <p>We recommended that users of James products subscribe to the |
| James users <a href="http://james.apache.org/mail.html">mailing list</a>.</p> |
| </section> |
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