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| list manager, etc. Several Mailets are included in the James |
| distribution (see <a href="/index.html">server documentation</a>).</p> |
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| </i> Like protocols, resources are abstracted and, |
| accessed through defined interfaces (like JPA for |
| mailbox or user accounts in RDBMS's). The server is |
| highly modular and reuse solutions from other projects.</p> |
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| <h2><a name="Standard_compliance"></a>Standard compliance</h2> |
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| <p>It is the existence of published "open" standards which |
| allows independent teams to develop interoperable software. |
| <br />James attempts to support a number of these standards most of which are |
| IETF RFC's and in the areas covered by these standards the published standard |
| is our requirements document. |
| <br />This sometimes leads to confusion where behaviour is not |
| the subject of a relevant standard, or conflict where common |
| (de-facto) behaviour is actually at odds with a supported standard. |
| <br />We believe that it is our responsibility to adhere to the published standard. |
| If we allow our implementation to deviate it means that we are tacitly encouraging |
| the situation whereby interoperability is no longer guaranteed by standards |
| compliance alone, but also requires access to undocumented and possibly |
| even commercially licenced technology. There is no easy route for a |
| newcomer to acquire these secrets, and interoperability |
| becomes something only available to the elite. |
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| <p>The James policy for issues of non-compliance tries to tread the fine line |
| between a pragmatic acceptance of other people's misinterpretation of the |
| RFC's and an evangelical defence of open standards as the key to freedom of inter-operation. |
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| In practice this policy is that certain well argued of cases of |
| non-compliance which can be *safely* worked around, will be tolerated by |
| James. |
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| In cases (like jira issue JAMES-344 ) where variance from a published standard is |
| required it is desirable that this functionality is disabled in James by default, |
| it must be prominently and clearly documented that this causes James |
| to violate the relevant standard, and should be enabled by explicit |
| configuration, making its use a conscious decision of the user rather |
| than an decision taken by the James team. |
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| In cases where the required behaviour is not within the scope of any standard which |
| James claims to support (such as behaviour which is a de-facto standard or |
| an <i>internet draft</i> RFC but not yet subject of a <i>standards track</i> RFC) it is |
| acceptable to implement the behaviour so long as it is adequately |
| documented (for instance by reference to an <i>internet draft</i> or |
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