| = James Basic Server — Context |
| :navtitle: Context |
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| Email has been around in one form or another for more than 50 years. |
| It is arguably one of the most resilient applications or our day, and |
| may even be called **THE** killer app of our time. Most of us, if not |
| all but the most unfortunate, use email on a regular basis. If you are |
| reading this page over the web, it is almost 100% certain that you have |
| used and continue to use email. |
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| Despite its ubiquity, the vast majority of people do not control their |
| own email infrastructure. Although, unlike telecommunications or electricity |
| for example, the barriers to owning and maintaining your own infrastructure |
| are very low, individuals and companies alike usually defer to the large |
| email providers for this essential service. |
| Although relying on the big providers is easy, what they offer is often |
| limited and in some cases much more costly than it ought to be. |
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| The Apache James Community is dedicated to liberating email. Our mission |
| is to make email hosting both easy and fun. We do this by: |
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| * Providing an easy-to-use self-hosted server for amateur Operators |
| * Providing an extendable server for those more experienced Operators |
| * Providing a distributed solution for heavy-duty projects |
| * Ensuring that James remains a flexible, reliable technology platform |
