User repositories are required to store James user information and authentication data

Consult usersrepository.xml in SVN to get some examples and hints.

JPA (database via OpenJPA) based user repository. This is the default implementation.

The usersrepository tag as 2 attributes: name="LocalUsers" and class="org.apache.james.user.file.UsersFileRepository">

algorithm

Algorithm to has passwords. Supported password algorithm are: MD5, SHA-256, SHA-512, NONE

enableVirtualHosting

true (default) or false. Defines if the usernames must (true) or may not contain (false) a domain part (user@domain.tld).

The File UsersRepository implementations below are DEPRECATED and will get removed in the next release

It just listed here for backward-compatibility

File-based user repositories Use these configurations to store user info in the filesystem.

The usersrepository tag as 2 attributes:name="LocalUsers" class="org.apache.james.user.file.UsersFileRepository">

destination

Example: file://var/users/.

ignoreCase

true or false.

enableAliases

true or false.

enableForwarding

true or false.

enableVirtualHosting

true (default) or false. Defines if the usernames must (true) or may not contain (false) a domain part (user@domain.tld).

The JDBC UsersRepository implementations below are DEPRECATED and will get removed in the next release.

It just listed here for backward-compatibility.

Read-Only LDAP based UsersRepository

Example: