Re: Re: Running mail and web servers on UNIX

Hi David and other James users,

Does anyone have a script that I can use on Debian 12 bookworm to start 
James?

Thanks for any help

On 2025-01-21 12:20, David Matthews wrote:

> hello
> 
>> Most Linux services require some sort of sendmail - either sendmail
>> itself or wrappers from exim or postfix. So although you can use James
>> as your primary server you have to provide some implementation of
>> sendmail or have to connect it to James.
> 
> I have to dissent from that.
> 
> I'm a long time unix user and did investigate James maybe  3 years ago 
> on linux; I'm also a java programmer, so I did have to  take a look. I 
> stuck with my  exim4/dovecot solution, at least one reason being that 
> the devils you know (almost 25 years of experience) are better than the 
> devil you don't.
> 
> But there is no reason I know that you cannot dispense with 
> sendmail/exim4/postfix on unix and run james. I would expect your setup 
> on windows would need no or minimal changes. So you have the same 
> james/java on a much improved base - linux/unix > windows (by a very 
> long way)
> 
> My email howto might be of interest, I can't check the url as I'm in a 
> public library that blocks part of my domain, but I think:
> 
> https://dmatthews.org/email_server/perfect_email.html
> 
> If not check the start menu at dmatthews.org
> 
> --
> David Matthews
> [email protected]
> 
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