A webmail server project for class CS601
(c) 2004 Jean Bovet
Abstract
- IRIS is a webmail server project for the CS601 (Object-Oriented Software Development) class taught by Prof. Parr.
- The main goal of this project was to build a webmail server using the Java language and several key libraries (see below).
- Two important guidelines were dictating the coding of IRIS: features and ease-of-use.
Features
- Login/logout for multiple users
- Signup for multiple users
- Multiple POP/IMAP accounts
- Persistent e-mails in MySQL database
- Multiple skin appearance
- View e-mails with embedded attachments and images
- Compose e-mails with attachments
- Reply, forward and delete e-mails
- Folders
- Filters
- Smart-folders
- Search
- SPAM filter
- Vacation response
- French localization
- Integrated spell-checker
- Auto-login
- Natural date display
- StringTemplate: This engine, written by Prof. Parr, is used to render the HTML page while ensuring strict MVC separation.
- PageForge: Written by Prof. Parr, PageForge contains a lot of really useful features, ideas and techniques used in IRIS (like the PageDispatcher).
- Lucene: Powerful search engine!
- Fileupload: Useful "add attachment" feature.
- JavaMail: Used to handle POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocol. Initially the IRIS project had to handle these protocols "by hand". JavaMail is now used to get more powerful features.
