[ANN] James v2.2.0a4 Test Build

["Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>]

James v2.2.0a4 is available for testing.  This release contains few
enhancements over the v2.2.0a3 test build, but contains several fixes to new
features.  This version is actively being tested, and is in use on at least
one production server (with live monitoring of its performance).

This release includes lots of improvements over the current stable release,
James v2.1.3:

New Matchers: RecipientIsOverFixedQuota,
              RecipientIsRegex,
              SenderHostIs,
              AttachmentFileNameIs

New Mailets: Significantly enhanced Redirect mailet
             Many mailets rewritten to subclass Redirect

Functional Enhancements:
   Allows partial sends to remote servers
   Supports for <authorizedAddresses> when using SMTP AUTH
   Supports fast fail based upon IP address
   Supports multiple gateway servers.
   Will attempt to autodetect DNS servers
   Improved classloading for custom matchers and mailets
   New AbstractNetworkMatcher class using NetMatcher.
     RemoteAddr[Not]InNetwork are now subclasses.
     This allows such things as 127.0.0.0/8 as a network
   Default configuration uses new Bounce mailet

Performance Improvements
   Improved performance storing local messages
   Improved POP3 performance
   Improved performance with large recipient lists
   Improved performance with large numbers of local users and MySQL.
   Reduced memory consumption using JDBC repositories.

Bug fixes
   Fixed buffering and logging in RemoteManager
   Improved support for character encoded subjects in mailing lists
   Fixed Bug 18028 - Exception embedding Multi-Part MIME messages using
Redirect
   Fixed Bug 20    - Enforce mandated CRLF line termination
   Fixed bug in SQLResources related to required strings.

Other improvements
   RemoteDelivery increments the delivery error count per pass, not per
server.
   It is now possible to limit size of JDBC ResultSets
   A new ThreadPool enforces the thread limit

James v2.2.0a4 is a test build.  Those who are able to test it, especially
those whose reported issues are addressed in this test build, should please
do so and report any problems.

The test build is available from
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-james/latest/.

	--- Noel


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