UBC Webmail

Broken links on this page

Many of the links on this page linked into JA-SIG FishEye view on CVS. CVS has been retired from read-write use and SVN is now the favored source control environment in JA-SIG. For performance reasons the Fisheye view on CVS has been retired. Consequently, the links on this page are broken.

If a kind soul would care to update them to link into the modern JA-SIG FishEye, that would be appreciated.

The version 3.x project

Release 3.2 available

Release 3.2 was made available on 12 February 2007. The release is marked in the UBC_Webmail module of CVS repository as "release_3-2".

There are 3 documents in the "docs" folder that may be useful to those implementing this release:

Release 3.1 available

Release 3.1 was made availailable on 27 January 2006. The release is marked in the UBC_Webmail module of CVS repository as "release_3-1".

There are 2 documents in the "docs" folder that may be useful to those implementing this release:

Release 3.0.1 available

Release 3.0.1 was made available on 7 October 2005. The release is marked in the UBC_Webmail module of CVS repository as "release_3-0-1".

There are 2 documents in the "docs" folder that may be useful to those implementing this release:

Release 3.0 available

Release 3.0 was made available on 10 January 2005. The release is marked in the UBC_Webmail module of CVS repository as "release_3-0".

There are 2 documents in the "docs" folder that may be useful to those implementing this release:

Who's using UBC Webmail?

This data from Paul Zablosky, Oct 21 2004.

Site	Respondent	Usage	Users	IMAP Server	Enhancements	Fixes	Contributions	Comments
Cornell	Steve Barrett	Production	35,000+	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	This is an absolute hit w/students. It is one of three supported email applications. We even auto-create read-only groups in the address book based on the users dept. in LDAP (Fac & Staff): no one was told about this and when they saw it we had to beat off the requests for additional dynamic groups with a stick!
MUN	Sarah Arnott	In test, Planning for production	20,000+	Cyrus	No	No	-	I think it's a great channel! I've been pushing to use it since January. As soon as the user namespace conflicts between our mail server and the CAS accounts are resolved, it's going into production.
NAU	Paul Gazda	Production	Several thousand	WU IMAP	Yes	Yes	Yes	It is the official email client for students. It is optional for faculty and staff. We developed CAS multi-server authentication support and plan to make it SASL compliant so that it will be easier for others to implement.
Rutgers	William G. Thompson	Production	26000+ going to 50000	Cyrus iPlanet	Yes	Yes	Yes	Very popular channel. Would like to see it managed as a separate JA-SIG subproject with better release management strategy and coordination. Long term, would like to see it converted to the Portlet API with a more layered architecture, maybe Spring PortletMVC.
UBC	Paul Zablosky	Production	50,000+	SunONE	Yes	Yes	Yes	UBC is the original development site for UBC Webmail. The primary developer is George Lindholm.

Known Problems

It was recently discovered that Xalan 2.6.0 has a bug that prevents people from reading emails when the email contains HTML with an HTML comment. The problem is that when the SAX parser encounteres the comment, it tries to send the event to a LexicalHandler which has not been configured (LexicalHandlers are optional). The result is a NullPointerException in Xalan's org.apache.xml.serializer.ToHTMLSAXHandler.comment() method. A bug, XALANJ-2023, has been submitted to the Xalan project. To work around this problem, you could apply the Xalan patch described in the bug report, rebuild Xalan, and drop it into your common/endorsed directory (assuming you use Tomcat). This problem and solution was identified at Rutgers University.

Note: In UBC_Webmail Release 3.2 the code has been changed so that this condition will be gracefully reported rather than thrown as a non-recoverable error.