[jira] [Created] (JAMES-3867) Make IMAP modular

["Benoit Tellier (Jira)" <se...@james.apache.org>]

Benoit Tellier created JAMES-3867:
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             Summary: Make IMAP modular
                 Key: JAMES-3867
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-3867
             Project: James Server
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: guice, IMAPServer
            Reporter: Benoit Tellier
             Fix For: 3.8.0


As an IMAP administrator I want to customize IMAP processing easily. This includes removing/adding/changing IMAP processors/encoders/decoders.

This allows the following use cases:

 - Add support for (potentially custom) IMAP extensions without recompiling James
 - Removing support for buggy commands easily, if any
 - Enforcing "read only behaviour"
 - Customizing some commands. For instance one of my customers got a tricky non standard IMAP authenticate command to handle.

The admin would specify a list of ImapPackage (which is itself a bundle of processors/encoders/decoders) from the imapserver.xml configuration file. By default, if unspecified the default IMAP package would be used.

Both ImapPackage/processors/encoders/decoders loading would leverage the extensions-jars mechanism.

h3. Definition of done

Write an exemple of such modularization writing a PING / PONG command and load it into a James server.

{code:java}
A001 PING whatever
 * PONG whatever
A001 OK PING command completed.
{code}





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