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| <h1 class="page">Distributed James Server — imapserver.xml</h1> |
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| <p>Consult this <a href="https://github.com/apache/james-project/blob/master/server/apps/distributed-app/sample-configuration/imapserver.xml">example</a> |
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| <p>The IMAP4 service is controlled by a configuration block in the imap4server.xml. |
| The imap4server tag defines the boundaries of the configuration block. It encloses |
| all the relevant configuration for the IMAP4 server. The behavior of the IMAP4 service is |
| controlled by the attributes and children of this tag.</p> |
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| <p>This tag has an optional boolean attribute - <strong>enabled</strong> - that defines whether the service is active or not. |
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| <p>The standard children of the imapserver tag are:</p> |
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| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">bind</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Configure this to bind to a specific inetaddress. This is an optional integer value. This value is the port on which this IMAP4 server is configured |
| to listen. If the tag or value is absent then the service |
| will bind to all network interfaces for the machine If the tag or value is omitted, the value will default to the standard IMAP4 port |
| port 143 is the well-known/IANA registered port for IMAP |
| port 993 is the well-known/IANA registered port for IMAPS ie over SSL/TLS</p></td> |
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| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">connectionBacklog</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Number of connection backlog of the server (maximum number of queued connection requests)</p></td> |
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| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">compress</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">true or false - Use or don’t use COMPRESS extension. Defaults to false.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">maxLineLength</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Maximal allowed line-length before a BAD response will get returned to the client |
| This should be set with caution as a to high value can make the server a target for DOS (Denial of Service)!</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">inMemorySizeLimit</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Optional. Size limit before we will start to stream to a temporary file. |
| Defaults to 10MB. Must be a positive integer, optionally with a unit: B, K, M, G.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">literalSizeLimit</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Optional. Maximum size of a literal (IMAP APPEND). |
| Defaults to 0 (unlimited). Must be a positive integer, optionally with a unit: B, K, M, G.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">plainAuthDisallowed</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Deprecated. Should use <code>auth.plainAuthEnabled</code>, <code>auth.requireSSL</code> instead. |
| Whether to enable Authentication PLAIN if the connection is not encrypted via SSL or STARTTLS. Defaults to <code>true</code>.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">auth.plainAuthEnabled</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Whether to enable Authentication PLAIN/ LOGIN command. Defaults to <code>true</code>.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">auth.requireSSL</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">true or false. Defaults to <code>true</code>. Whether to require SSL to authenticate. If this is required, the IMAP server will disable authentication on unencrypted channels.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">auth.oidc.oidcConfigurationURL</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Provide OIDC url address for information to user. Only configure this when you want to authenticate IMAP server using a OIDC provider.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">auth.oidc.jwksURL</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Provide url to get OIDC’s JSON Web Key Set to validate user token. Only configure this when you want to authenticate IMAP server using a OIDC provider.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">auth.oidc.claim</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Claim string uses to identify user. E.g: "email_address". Only configure this when you want to authenticate IMAP server using a OIDC provider.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">auth.oidc.scope</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">An OAuth scope that is valid to access the service (RF: RFC7628). Only configure this when you want to authenticate IMAP server using a OIDC provider.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">timeout</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Default to 30 minutes. After this time, inactive channels that have not performed read, write, or both operation for a while |
| will be closed. Negative value disable this behaviour.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">enableIdle</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Default to true. If enabled IDLE commands will generate a server heartbeat on a regular period.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">idleTimeInterval</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Defaults to 120. Needs to be a strictly positive integer.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">idleTimeIntervalUnit</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Default to SECONDS. Needs to be a parseable TimeUnit.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">disabledCaps</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Implemented server capabilities NOT to advertise to the client. Coma separated list. Defaults to no disabled capabilities.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">jmxName</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">The name given to the configuration</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">tls</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Set to true to support STARTTLS or SSL for the Socket. |
| To use this you need to copy sunjce_provider.jar to /path/james/lib directory. To create a new keystore execute: |
| <code>keytool -genkey -alias james -keyalg RSA -storetype PKCS12 -keystore /path/to/james/conf/keystore</code>. |
| Please note that each IMAP server exposed on different port can specify its own keystore, independently from any other |
| TLS based protocols.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">handler.helloName</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">This is the name used by the server to identify itself in the IMAP4 |
| protocol. If autodetect is TRUE, the server will discover its |
| own host name and use that in the protocol. If discovery fails, |
| the value of 'localhost' is used. If autodetect is FALSE, James |
| will use the specified value.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">connectiontimeout</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Connection timeout in seconds</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">connectionLimit</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Set the maximum simultaneous incoming connections for this service</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">connectionLimitPerIP</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Set the maximum simultaneous incoming connections per IP for this service</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">concurrentRequests</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Maximum number of IMAP requests executed simultaneously. Past that limit requests are queued. Defaults to 20. |
| Negative values deactivate this feature, leading to unbounded concurrency.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">maxQueueSize</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Upper bound to the IMAP throttler queue. Upon burst, requests that cannot be queued are rejected and not executed. |
| Integer, defaults to 4096, must be positive, 0 means no queue.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">proxyRequired</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Enables proxy support for this service for incoming connections. HAProxy’s protocol |
| (<a href="https://www.haproxy.org/download/2.7/doc/proxy-protocol.txt" class="bare">https://www.haproxy.org/download/2.7/doc/proxy-protocol.txt</a>) is used and might be compatible |
| with other proxies (e.g. traefik). If enabled, it is <strong>required</strong> to initiate the connection |
| using HAProxy’s proxy protocol.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">bossWorkerCount</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Set the maximum count of boss threads. Boss threads are responsible for accepting incoming IMAP connections |
| and initializing associated resources. Optional integer, by default, boss threads are not used and this responsibility is being dealt with |
| by IO threads.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">ioWorkerCount</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Set the maximum count of IO threads. IO threads are responsible for receiving incoming IMAP messages and framing them |
| (split line by line). IO threads also take care of compression and SSL encryption. Their tasks are short-lived and non-blocking. |
| Optional integer, defaults to 2 times the count of CPUs.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">ignoreIDLEUponProcessing</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">true or false - Allow disabling the heartbeat handler. Defaults to true.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect1"> |
| <h2 id="_oidc_setup"><a class="anchor" href="#_oidc_setup"></a>OIDC setup</h2> |
| <div class="sectionbody"> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>James IMAP support XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism which allow authenticating against a OIDC providers. |
| Please configure <code>auth.oidc</code> part to use this.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>We do supply an <a href="https://github.com/apache/james-project/tree/master/examples/oidc">example</a> of such a setup. |
| It uses the Keycloak OIDC provider, but usage of similar technologies is definitely doable.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect1"> |
| <h2 id="_extending_imap"><a class="anchor" href="#_extending_imap"></a>Extending IMAP</h2> |
| <div class="sectionbody"> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>IMAP decoders, processors and encoder can be customized. <a href="../extending/imap.html" class="xref page">Read more</a>.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>Check this <a href="https://github.com/apache/james-project/tree/master/examples/custom-imap">example</a>.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>The following configuration properties are available for extensions:</p> |
| </div> |
| <table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all stretch"> |
| <caption class="title">Table 2. imapserver.xml content</caption> |
| <colgroup> |
| <col style="width: 50%;"> |
| <col style="width: 50%;"> |
| </colgroup> |
| <thead> |
| <tr> |
| <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">Property name</th> |
| <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">explanation</th> |
| </tr> |
| </thead> |
| <tbody> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">imapPackages</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Configure (union) of IMAP packages. IMAP packages bundles decoders (parsing IMAP commands) processors and encoders, |
| thus enable implementing new IMAP commands or replace existing IMAP processors. List of FQDNs, which can be located in |
| James extensions.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">additionalConnectionChecks</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Configure (union) of additional connection checks. ConnectionCheck will check if the connection IP is secure or not.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">customProperties</p></td> |
| <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Properties for custom extension. Each tag is a property entry, and holds a string under the form key=value.</p></td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect1"> |
| <h2 id="_mail_user_agents_auto_configuration"><a class="anchor" href="#_mail_user_agents_auto_configuration"></a>Mail user agents auto-configuration</h2> |
| <div class="sectionbody"> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>Check this example on <a href="https://github.com/apache/james-project/tree/master/examples/imap-autoconf">Mail user agents auto-configuration</a>.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
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