Apache James Reviews & Product Details

Apache James is a great tool which has a modular architecture based on a rich set of modern and efficient components which provides at the end complete, stable, secure and extendable Mail Servers running on the JVM. The James server can also be used as Mail Transfer Agent, by enabling only SMTP or as a IMAP Mail Delivery Agent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

New features are slow to be added and could be slightly more user friendly. Fine tuning security, permissions, special behaviors requires extensive technical knowledge. For most average users, having a GUI dashboard is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the fact that I can use James as a Mail Transfer Agent is exactly what I needed. I like that I'm able to use with both POP3 and IMAP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not sure if I can extend James to persist emails in a store. Also was not clear if it supports rfc2231. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Java platform runs on both Linus and Windows, and provides modular design and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No GUI and when using in in 2012 the most current stable release dated August 2009. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache JAMES provides plugin mechanism to make mail send/receive functions as automation services. It is easy to design receiving service as webhook (push) or leveraging IMAP (pull) for a small application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The development activity on this open source project is a bit low, and usually, development requires look into related source code and come up the solution. Documentation for enhancement is not good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pure Java enterprise mail server built by the Apache group. But it has the potential to be much more than that, thanks to its pluggable protocol architecture and a mailet infrastructure that does for e-mail what servlets do for Web servers. E-mail servers have been around since the early days of DARPA funding for what would eventually become the Internet, but James offers new possibilities for what's often been dubbed the Internet's first killer application.James provides a comprehensive set of services, including many that are usually available only in high-end or well-established e-mail servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cons: Lack of native mobile and web support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The James project manages the Apache Mailet API which defines matches and mailers. These allow users to write their own mail-handling code, such as to update a database, build a message archive, or filter spam Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a room for improvement on the documentation part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.