At this point, I have the James server configured. I have sent mail to one of my users using telnet to talk to the SMTP port. I have received that mail in Thunderbird. I have used these TB instances to send mail to each other. And I now have a script that can send messages to the clients.
The tasks for setting this up are:
1) download and configure James.
2) create profiles in Thunderbird and launch a different instance for each.
3) use the clients to e-mail each other.
4) use a script to send e-mails.
Configuring James
I am using James 2.3.0 from Apache. I have only made a few changes to a file, apps/james/SAR-INF/config.xml.
1) I commented out a "mailet":
<!--
<mailet match="RemoteAddrNotInNetwork=127.0.0.1" class="ToProcessor">
<processor> relay-denied </processor>
<notice>550 - Requested action not taken: relaying denied</notice>
</mailet>
-->
This mailet was causing the mailer to think I was treating it like an open relay.
2) I changed an item inside the <servernames> bit:
<servername>10.0.1.6</servername>
This is the IP of the machine I am using when I am inside my house's firewall.
3) Inside the <remotemanager> bit, I changed the admin username and password. You do not have to, if you do not want to do so.
<account login="root" password="root"/>
4) Start the server.
% cd james-2.3.0 ; sudo bin/run.sh
5) Add some users.
One does this by using telnet to connect to the "remoteadmin" port, which defaults to 4555. Here is an example of adding usersm, with the stuff I typed in bold:
% telnet localhost 4555
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
JAMES Remote Administration Tool 2.3.0
Please enter your login and password
Login id:
ray
Password:
<mypassword>
Welcome ray. HELP for a list of commands
help
Currently implemented commands:
help - display this help
listusers - display existing accounts
countusers - display the number of existing accounts
adduser [username] [password] - add a new user
verify [username] - verify if specified user exist
deluser [username] - delete existing user
setpassword [username] [password] - sets a user's password
setalias [user] [alias] - locally forwards all email for 'user' to 'alias'
showalias [username] - shows a user's current email alias
unsetalias [user] - unsets an alias for 'user'
setforwarding [username] [emailaddress] - forwards a user's email to another email address
showforwarding [username] - shows a user's current email forwarding
unsetforwarding [username] - removes a forward
user [repositoryname] - change to another user repository
shutdown - kills the current JVM (convenient when James is run as a daemon)
quit - close connection
quit
Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Creating Profiles
Moz-people know how to do this already. Just set up a profile for each user in the list you added in the step above.
Creating Profiles
Moz-people know how to do this already. Just set up a profile for each user in the list you added in the step above.
Sending E-Mails From Clients
Just set the mail host and sender to the IP address of your machine and enter e-mail addresses as, for example:adam@[10.0.1.6], with the brackets. I am trying to find a way to set a preference to change the title of the main window. For instance, it would be useful to have the window title be the same as the e-mail of that profile. I have not found how to do this yet.
Scripted E-Mails
Download the following two files:
I still need to put in parameters for some things. Right now, you say:
% ./muchMail.sh -h 10.0.1.6 -i inMail.txt
There are keywords in the file that get replaced dynamically, such as__DATE__. Some are structural keywords, such as__TO__,__FROM__,__SUBJ__,__END__.
Let me know how much this needs to be documented. Lines starting with a#are ignored. E-mails start with a__TO__and end with a__END__.
