What is the status of this project?

[Randgalt]

I need an embeddable SMTP server for a new project I'm working on. Is this library stable and being maintained? The versions on maven central are 10 years old.

[arichiardi]

I would be interested in knowing this as well, the last commit was in March 2015 but there are many forks which moved forward a bit. I my case, I would like to contribute the respawning of the server (stop and then start again), does it make sense to PR this project?

Maybe @stickfigure @lookfirst can shed some light on the future of it. It surely is a very useful project and worth maintaining!

[arichiardi]

It looks like it might be worth switching to a fork. If somebody volunteers I might be of help as well. At the moment @bigjosh and @rvdbdvr are the best candidates.

[dagnelies]

I don't have the expertise, but I encourage this, since this appears to be the only viable java SMTP server. Apache james appears dead too.

[lookfirst]

I wouldn't say this project is dead, it is just mostly complete. It isn't like SMTP has changed much in the last 10 years. The original authors are all onto other projects and the other commits look like there is a few probably good ones, but mostly just dependency upgrades. If you have the itch, we welcome you to scratch it. =) Submit some PR's.

[arichiardi]

Fiuu, I was afraid this will never get answers. There a couple of things that can be worked on and I just wanted to be sure that if I push a PR there is somebody still looking at it and that can handle releases. I have on Pr in the pipes for instance :)))

[dminkovsky]

If someone starts a fork they want to maintain publicly, please post here.

[bigjosh]

Been a little busy lately, but I hope to be keeping this fork up-to-date. I will certainly promptly accept any issues or beneficial PRs in the meantime!

[dminkovsky]

Awesome, thanks. I plan to give this thing a shot in production soon. What about you?

[bigjosh]

Depends on your definition of soon... :)

Certainly hope to in the next few months...

[dminkovsky]

I'd like to have it up and world-facing by the end of this month 😨

[bigjosh]

That is sooner than me. I’m looking maybe 6 months.

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[davidmoten]

Just a heads up that I've contributed some improvements (got tests working and some other minor stuff) to the fork by @bigjosh. I'm interested in using a Maven Central released artifact so my fork of @bigjosh has been released to Maven Central under com.github.davidmoten:subethasmtp. I think the main fork of this project should be a clean maven build so the @bigjosh managed project seems like a good place if he's still motivated. In the meantime I'll be paying the project some attention and making releases to Maven Central for the next month or so assuming my production use case goes ahead. https://github.com/davidmoten/subethasmtp.

[vivekanandasofware]

Hi @bigjosh iam trying to secure my sMTP Server.
startTLS simplyworks fine.
But pure SSL usage has a problem, my client isn't able to send messages and throws back an error saying:
com.hp.usage.connector.framework.NoFreeConnectionException: com.hp.usage.connector.framework.ConnectionTimedoutException: javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 587;
nested exception is:
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
at com.hp.usage.connector.framework.DefaultConnectionPool.getConnection(DefaultConnectionPool.java:106)
at com.hp.usage.connector.EndPoint.getConnection(EndPoint.java:111)
at com.hp.usage.connector.PrimarySecondaryEndPointSelector.getConnection(PrimarySecondaryEndPointSelector.java:77)
at com.hp.usage.connector.AbstractEndPointSelector.execute(AbstractEndPointSelector.java:49)
at com.hp.usage.connector.framework.TaskWrapper.call(TaskWrapper.java:37)
at com.hp.usage.connector.framework.Connector.submit(Connector.java:33)
at com.hp.usage.connector.ClientService.execute(ClientService.java:36)
at com.hp.usage.connector.ClientService.execute(ClientService.java:47)
at com.hp.usage.lookup.SynchronousLookupRule.applyRule(SynchronousLookupRule.java:70)
at com.hp.siu.collector.rules.AdornmentRule.applyRule(AdornmentRule.java:266)
at com.hp.siu.collector.rules.RuleChain.applyRule(RuleChain.java:221)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.hp.usage.servicekernel.ServiceReferenceImpl.invoke(ServiceReferenceImpl.java:147)
at com.hp.siu.sessionserver.RuleChainReference.applyRule(RuleChainReference.java:61)
at com.hp.siu.sessionserver.CorbaConnector.invokeRuleChain(CorbaConnector.java:376)
at com.hp.siu.sessionserver.CorbaConnector.sendRequest(CorbaConnector.java:239)
at com.hp.siu.corba.TransactionManagerPOA._invoke(TransactionManagerPOA.java:51)
at org.jacorb.poa.RequestProcessor.invokeOperation(RequestProcessor.java:402)
at org.jacorb.poa.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:726)
at org.jacorb.poa.RequestProcessor.run(RequestProcessor.java:884)
Caused by: com.hp.usage.connector.framework.ConnectionTimedoutException: javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 587;
nested exception is:
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
at com.hp.usage.smtp.client.SMTPClientConnection.initializeConnection(SMTPClientConnection.java:212)
at com.hp.usage.smtp.client.SMTPClientConnection.(SMTPClientConnection.java:99)
at com.hp.usage.smtp.client.SMTPClientConnectionFactory.createConnection(SMTPClientConnectionFactory.java:12)
at com.hp.usage.connector.framework.DefaultConnectionPool.newConnection(DefaultConnectionPool.java:162)
at com.hp.usage.connector.framework.DefaultConnectionPool.getConnection(DefaultConnectionPool.java:104)
... 22 more
Caused by: javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 587;
nested exception is:
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1972)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:642)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:295)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:125)
at com.hp.usage.smtp.client.SMTPClientConnection.connectSmtpTransport(SMTPClientConnection.java:219)
at com.hp.usage.smtp.client.SMTPClientConnection.initializeConnection(SMTPClientConnection.java:185)
... 26 more
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.handleUnknownRecord(InputRecord.java:710)
at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(InputRecord.java:527)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:973)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1375)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1403)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1387)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.configureSSLSocket(SocketFetcher.java:548)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:352)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:233)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1938)
... 32 more

Any hints on what could be wrong or is that Subetha doesnt support pure SSL connections

[davidmoten]

An update of changes in my fork:
https://github.com/davidmoten/subethasmtp#fork-of-a-fork

Re pure SSL support I haven't seen any documentation that this is supposed to be supported beyond the startTLS command.

@vivekanandasofware My fork has a full unit test of a startTLS session. If you think pure SSL support is important I'm happy to have a chat about it (and add unit tested support).

[vivekanandasofware]

Thank you @davidmoten .
As i mentioned we have a need to support fully secured connection apart from startTLS which is a delayed securing mechanism compared to SSL which requires secure conenction initially. I thought if startTLS is supported pure SSL would also be supported. Any hints on how to get SSL connection working would be appreciated. I dont know if a code change is required in Subetha to do this.