[JAMES-3215] Update SSL support in James

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Ioan Eugen Stan
• Reporter: David Leangen
• Created: 14/Jun/20 03:58
• Updated: 05/May/22 03:10

Description

SSL support is not working [1], and it complicates the installation process. It causes the inclusion of various libraries, and Java suuuuuucks for SSL support.

It would make James a lot simpler to remove SSL support and make SSL termination somebody else's problem. These days it should be easy to use a proxy (like nginx) or an ingress (for example in Kubernetes) to perform SSL termination.

It would be one less thing to maintain in James, one less thing that can go wrong, one less step to take just to get a James server working, and a step closer to providing good user support.

[1] I define "working" by meaning that as a user, I follow the instructions but it still does not work as intended.

Issue Links

• relates to: JAMES-3206 Keystore Exception when running the "Basic" Server
• relates to: JAMES-3209 Auth Module to make James usable with Nginx mail proxy for TLS termination
• relates to: JAMES-3216 Make James Basic Server easier to use