Programmatic interface to facilitate crawling a James email server

Lewis John McGibbney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.james.user
Message-ID <pony-b7497055821405926d63668ab1112e0f108e2346-4ec7846d1b69c0eec3c8ec49f1c97e87978a725b@server-user.james.apache.org> 
Hi user@,
I'm a committer on the Nutch (http://nutch.apache.org) project and want to build a plugin which allows Nutch to crawl email servers via the appropriate email protocol(s). 
If I wanted to test programmatic client access to James, how would I go about doing that?
I've had a look at the James Protocols component http://james.apache.org/protocols/index.html and think that this might be the mechanism I need to use but could do with some further clarity and guidance.
Thanks in advance for any info.
lewismc
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