XMail admin gateway component in ColdFusion

I have worked with XMail, an open-source mail server, for a number of years. XMail currently powers the mail services for emergentpath.com and a few other domains that the orgnization hosts. XMail comes with a very handy command line administration tool that allows you to administer the server from local or remote systems. Like all command line tools, it can be somewhat cryptic, and it certainly doesn't lend itself to automation. 

Based on the needs of my own organization, I decided to write a ColdFusion gateway to the XMail command line tool. The gateway is implemented as a ColdFusion component and includes all of the commands that the command line tool accepts. A few of the advanced features, such as pushing configuration files to the server, are not yet fully implemented, but most everything else is coded, if not entirely tested. If you would like to take a look, download the beta code.  

 

If time permits, we might put some R & D effort behind using this component as the front end of a full-fledged Xmail admin utility written in Flex.

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