pop3serv

pop3serv is a RFC1939-compliant implementation of the server-side part of POP3, the protocol used to retrieve email from a server. pop3serv is a framework which allows the easy creation of POP3 servers for lots of different purposes.

pop3serv is open source software and available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

• With pop3serv testing of POP3 client software (such as spam filters) gets reproducible with an email server which always provides the same mails. A simple example is provided.
• Monitoring an enterprise system can be enhanced by using pop3serv to provide detailed log information as downloadable emails. A log4j logger is already included in pop3serv as an example.
• Complete custom email servers can be created using pop3serv. All is needed is the SMTP part and persistence. For persistence please have a look at COPE.

Downloads are hosted on sourceforge.

The development process of pop3serv is strongly influenced by the ideas of Extreme Programming. It heavily relies on Automated Continuous Integration.

Therefore, releases published on sourceforge do not carry any explicit version number. Instead each release is named after the build number assigned by the cruisecontrol server that built this release.