• →DOWNLOADS:
  The Apache James project wires together the different libraries composing James to provide a running services, ready to download on the Apache mirrors. Seeour download page.
  
  Followour installation guide.

• →WHAT WILL YOU TRY:
  Here you will try James server version 3.8.2 thanks to an image. This James image has a default configuration using JPA (hsqldb) and Lucene. It also includes a default domain named james.local and three default users: user01@james.local, user02@james.local, user03@james.local, with their default password being1234.
  Note: this James server will respond to IMAPS port 993 and SMTPS port 465.
• →STEPS YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW:
  Pull and run the James image with the following single command:
  
  docker run -p "465:465" -p "993:993" apache/james:demo-3.8.2
  
  Then, connect this image with for instance, Thunderbird. Thistutorial covers more in depth user and domain creation, as well as thunderbird setup.
  
• →ALTERNATIVES:
  Instructions that do not imply docker are also availablehere.
• →Distributed James server
  Recent work of the Apache James project did lead to a James product that leverages a distributed mail server, using storage technologies likeCassandra,OpenSearch,RabbitMQ, andobjectStorage (S3/Swift).
  
  Feedback on this product is welcome.
  
  This product can be executed via docker-compose or you can follow its standard installation guide

• MAIN GOALS
  
  • →Providing adistributed mail server, fully horizontally scalable.
  • →Maintaining astandalone version suitable for a single server, based onJPA.
• INCOMING WORK
  
  • →Rework our documentation withAntora, specify it on a per-server basis for ease of use.Preview...
    We will furthermore target servers to identified use cases, formulated in non technical terms: Basic Server, Advanced Server and Distributed Server.
    
  • →Promote guice based applications.
    Spring server will be deprecated. A summary of community call describing this item can be foundhere.
    
    Guice adoption schedule:
    1. Promote Guice artifacts on the download page as part of3.7.0
    2. Deprecate Spring artifact as part of3.8.0
    3. Remove Spring artifact as part of4.0.0
  • →Continue improvingJMAPRFC-8621 support. See thisJIRA for some further possible developments
  • →Feel free to add your own items here: seeContribute.

• Apache James jDKIM 0.4 - March 04, 2025
  

  The Apache James Project is happy to announcethe release of version 0.4 of the Apache James jDKIM library.

• Apache James JSPF 1.0.5 - March 03, 2025
  

  The Apache James developers are pleased to announce the 1.0.5 release of the JSPF library.

Apache James Project is an Open Source all-volunteer project obtaining its strength from its Community made of developers and users. All are welcome to the Community!
That way, we recommend that Users, Developers, Curious and Fans join the James Community.

• Mailing list:
  Subscribe to the appropriateMailing Lists according to your interests and your profile.
  Mail guidelines explain you more precisely how it works.
• Gitter chat room:
  Chat in live with the community onGitter chat room.
• Twitter:
  Express yourself and follow us@ApacheJames.
• Download Apache James releases:
  Ourdownload page allows you to download artifacts and sources for the James Server and James libraries.
• Professional support:
  Find a list of companies which can provide you some support on James.

James is a project that lives from the contributions of its community.
Anyone can contribute! That's right, we always want to hear from people with contributions to the code, the documentation, the website, and bug reports. We more than welcome non-coding contributions.
Here are different ways to contribute:

• Licenses:
  All contributions to the James project are made under theApache license 2.0
• Join the community:
  We more than welcomearticles andblog posts about James.
  Contact us byemail or onGitter to share your experiences.
  Don't hesitate to promote the Apache James project on your preferred medias.
• Report bugs:
  You can here enter bug encountered, share your point of view about a specific feature or anything else...
  Each subproject has its own bug tracker.Go to James Server project bugtracker.
  For other projects click on the appropriate links mentioned in the concerned subproject. Finally, create your issue.
• Documentation:
  Documentation is an easy way to get on board!
  Check out the~documentation label on JIRA to get some ideas.
  Report on JIRA the typo you spots, the information you miss, and any improvement you can think to.
  The next step is to contribute the documentation changes viaGit.
• How to contribute code changes:
  Read our sources from theApache Git.
  You can also come and interact with us onGitHub and share your work by creating a pull request.
  Alternatively, you can attach apatch to the JIRA issue.
  After a review, and exchanges with you, an Apache James developer will integrate the changes once it matches our policies.
• What contributions can you do:
  We reference some easy tasks to start with :~newbie
  We have a collection of minor fixes awaiting contributions:~easyfix
  Challenge yourself with some cool features we thought to:~feature
  Additional ideas are more than welcome. Don't hesitate to discuss that with us!
• Reporting security vulnerabilities:
  Security: Vulnerabilities should be announced to the Apache Security team.
  PMCs will be notified about them, and will work hard to propose fixes as fast as possible.
• Additional information:
  Thecontribute page contains more details about the various details exposed above.
  To match the quality expectations of our community, we enforcecoding standards. We rely oncheckstyle for style checking.

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