JMailer is a small mailer written in java and useful for managing a mailing list. It can automatically forward received mail to a set of people. JMailer uses javamail api for sending mail (SMTP). You will need to download this API (Sun). JMailer can receive mail using Pop3. Javamail API from Sun doesn't support this protocol yet so I have written several classes for the Pop protocol.(org.jfouffa.mail.pop).

JMailer goals:

• Send a mail to someone with SMTP.
• Send a mail to a group of people (SMTP).
• Receive Pop3 mails.
• Notify new Pop3 mails.
• Forward automatically a received mail to a set of people ( option: automatic mailing list).
• Store received and sent mails into differents folders.
• MH folders(Will be changed soon).
• Users can send a mail to JMailer for being added or removed to the mailing list.
• Notify admistrator when a subscription or unsubscription occurs (by mail).

Warning, JMailer does not support APOP command (password crypting) yet. It should be easy to implement .

This java programm requires jdk1.1.5 or better. You will need two APIs, jaf and javamail. You can easily download them from Sun web site. You must put in your CLASSPATH activation.jar (jaf), mail.jar (javamail) and jmailer.jar

Edit the configuration file jmailer/ml.props and changes informations.

Then, executes jmailer: java org.jfouffa.mail.GUI jmailer/ml.props.

Snap shot of the main screen:

Edit button: change emails of the mailing list.

To field: if empty then send the mail to the mailing list else to this email.

Send button: sends the mail.

Options: changes mailer options.

Backup: edit, view your outgoing mails.

Inbox: edit, view your ingoing mails.

Inc Mails: incorpore the new mails into your inbox folder.

Quit button: I dont remember the rule of this feature.

You can edit your options with the GUI. Look at the snapshot:

• stmp host: your stmp server for sending mails.
• mailing list: this file contains email's list.
• from:
• backup path: directory that contains outgoing mails.
• inbox path: directory that contains ingoing mails.
• pop host: your pop server using for receiving mails.
• pop login: login on the pop server.
• pop pwd: password on the pop server.
• send received mail: if true, jmailer sends automatically new mails.
• mail master email: email of the admistrator of the mailing list. Jmailer sends subscribe and unsubscribe emails to him. Note that jmailer automatically adds or removes users.

If a user wants to be removed or added to the mailing, he just need to send a mail. Subject must be subscribe or unsubscribe. The first line of the body of the mail must the email used for the mailing list.

You can directly change these options from the properties file. You should find a example in jmailer/ml.props.

You can edit and view your outgoing and ingoing mail's folder. Look at the snapshot:

In this java package you will find some usefull tools:

• Biff: notify new pop3 mails.
• Mail: a java version for pop3 of this very wellknown unix command.

Mail

A sample clone of the wellknown unix command Mail. Provides access to a Pop3 mailbox.

How to use

file must be a text file that contains informations for the communication with your pop server.

• pop.host: your pop server.
• pop.login: your login on the pop server.
• pop.pwd: your password on the pop server.

Action after the prompt:

• x - exit
• h - list mail identifiers
• [identifier] - view a mail
• s [file] - save the current mail into a file

Dont forget to put jmailer.jar in your CLASSPATH.

Biff

No doc, executes it with: java org.jfouffa.mail.pop.Biff config.props

You can download JMail from http://www.mygale.org/~jeanfi/LA.zip.

• Yves Lafon (W3C) my ex-boss.
• Jfouffa consortium: for the idea of a mailing list.
• The Jigsaw Team for the fabulous Web Server Jigsaw(A.Baird, Y.Lafon, B.Mahe).
• James Gosling (Sun) for the Java Virtual Machine.
• Severine Vouret: just because she loves Jfouffa Boys.