Closed kenballus closed 1 month ago
schongallam
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2 months ago I have built james 3.7.5 from source, it takes about 10gb. I have not been able to get james 3.8.1 to build from github source however -- numerous missing symbols. The official docker container is 500mb (for version 3.6.1, however).
schongallam
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2 months ago I got version of 3.8.1 to mvn compile but not mvn install. After switching over to the official Apache pre-compiled binaries for 3.8.1, I'm able to get the server running now (on OpenJDK 17, no less). There are still some more things I can try to get the build-from-source to work (like forcing downgrade to OpenJDK 11). But even on appleseed the build takes at least ~15 minutes and is a disk hog. So if the latest binaries are satisfactory, I'll move on to finishing the server configuration.
Update: By using OpenJDK 11 and downloading the official source zip from Apache, I was able to build 3.8.1 from source and it seems to work with a rudimentary configuration. Next, configuring it as a relay to echo...
kenballus
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2 months ago Thank you. I will take a look at this and get back to you by the weekend.
-Ben
schongallam
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2 months ago Builds from source zip (3.8.1). Next step is to migrate to github accession.
schongallam
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1 month ago With commit fc5d3da James now pulls directly from james-project:master. Image efficiency improved, down from 8~12gb to 2.5gb. Still uses the .../conf/ folder to bulk deliver configuration files, because reasons (and which should be fine for the time being). Should that need a fresh look, it can be opened as its own issue, as needed. I'll close this issue for now.
The most noteworthy change was James now depends on Java 21... a big step up from 11.
Being that 3.8.1 is the official latest stable release, I left a fallback Dockerfile for building that image too.
https://james.apache.org/