JBoss Mail Server 1.0 Milestone 3 is now officially released. Many thanks to all of those who helped test the Release Candidate. I'd also like to thank the members Triangle Java Users' Group for allowing me to give a talk on the issue and for all of their great feedback. It was encouraging to see the enthusiasm building around this project.

You can install the JDK 5.0 version of JBMS-1.0M3-final via Java Web Start. You can also download it directly and install by typing java -jar install-jbms-1.0m3-final.jar. We do recommend JDK 5.0 (aka 1.5) as the garbage collector is significantly improved especially on enterprise grade systems.

If you still want to run with JDK 1.42, you can JDK 1.4 version of JBMS-1.0M3-final via Java Web Start or download the JDK 1.4 build of JBMS-1.0M3-final directly.

While there are already production users of earlier milestones of JBMS, it is not a "final" release, it is suggested that early adopters be cautious and undergo rigorous testing before deploying this release. We eagerly invite participation in the JBMS Forum and request your feedback on the release and project direction and thank you in advance for your continued assistance and support.

With this release, some emphasis has been placed on increasing the usability and graphical installation of the software (now based on izPack). You will find many answers in this set of wiki pages as well as an installation tutorial with pictorial walkthrough, and instructions on setting up Mozilla's Thunderbird Mail Client to work with JBMS.

I like to call this the "Mike Barker release", Mike is one of our volunteer developers that really got things moving while I was globetrotting. It was Mike's excellent work on our mail body persistence mechanism and his help in getting the bugs fixed that really made this release possible. As I transition from the services side of JBoss to full time development of JBMS, I look forward to continuing to work with Mike. He is a leading member of what has become known internally at JBoss as the "JBMS cult". I also look forward to having you as a new inductee.

There were few changes between the release candidate and this final release. Routing limited by domain group was added as was a fix to bounce messages. And thank you for your support.