Manage James Server

You need to make sure that your user/domain/mail repository configuration is correct before managing. If you change your user/domain/mail repository type (i.e. file to database) or the configuration of your user repository (i.e. the file or database URL) after you have added user/domain/mail, you may lose your user/domain/mail data. Please change these values with care.

After you've done this, restart James to ensure that any changes you've made in the configuration are incorporated into the running system.

You are now ready to manage Domains, Users and Recipient Rewrite Table.

You can manage James via:

  1. CLI (Client Line Interface)
  2. JMX (Java Management Extension)

Manage via CLI

Once James is up and listening, managing via the command line interface is simple.

cd bin

./james-cli.sh (or james-cli.bat on windows) ./james-cli.sh -h localhost -p 9999

You will be shown with a list of commands.

  usage: java org.apache.james.cli.ServerCmd --host <arg> <command>
    -h,--host </arg>   node hostname or ip address
    -p,--port </arg>   remote jmx agent port number
  Available commands:
    adduser </username> </password>
    removeuser </username>
    listusers
    adddomain </domainname>
    removedomain </domainname>
    listdomains
    containsdomain
      

Note the address and port defined in conf/jmx.properties (default is jmx.address=127.0.0.1 and jmx.port=9999)

Manage via JMX

James can be managed via JMX.

The managed objects are exposed from localhost only (for security reasons) on the following URL:

service:jmx:rmi://localhost/jndi/rmi://localhost:999/jmxrmi

Simply launch jconsole to access the exposed attributes and methods.

If you want a remote access, change 'localhost' to your server hostname in the previous URL:

service:jmx:rmi://localhost/jndi/rmi://localhost:999/jmxrmi

To manage through a firewall, you will have to take care to random ports creation (read JMX agent , JMX through firewall and Getting Java JMX to work through firewalls properly.

You can install a web application management tool such as jmanage. You will get screens such as the following one.