Introduction to the Modern Email DevRoom

Benoit has been a part of the Apache JAMES community since 2015. His motto: a modular email system that scales, using modern protocols. A contributor since 2016 and a project committee member since 2017, he became the Chairman of the Apache James project in 2019 and a member of the Apache Foundation in 2020.

Benoit has participated in several IETF meetings, collaborating with other project members to propose two RFCs to the JMAP working group.

Additionally, Benoit has flourished within the LINAGORA Group for the past 10 years, where he currently serves as the Product Owner for the Team-Mail solution.

Software engineer (Go enthousiast), interested in all things internet/infrastructure/security/computers/etc, developer of mox, a modern email server.

Longtime linux/unix nerd and IETF email/DNS person.

I've been a linux user since august 1992, which was a hard time, we didn't have a proper bootloader yet and Linus released kernels faster than I could carry floppies home from university. Also we had to walk uphill through the snow to get to the vt220 and access the internet. A few years later I helped found one of the first opensource companies (and Stallman called for my personal bankruptcy), and I wrote my first RFC around the same time. Thirty years later I now work for ICANN, making email and the DNS work for all the people, not just those who read and write the latin alphabet.

• Ben was 25 years core contributor of Thunderbird, and in the project leadership team
• He invented AutoConfig to make automatic email app setup possible
• The author of several upcoming RFCs
• He was the main author or tech lead of 2 applications with many millions of users
• Now, he creates Parula, to take on Outlook

Mauro has been deeply passionate about email and digital communications since the early days of the internet. His journey with email began in 1993 through UUCP, when he ran a Bulletin Board System (BBS) that provided users with access to Fidonet as well as email services fetched via UUCP. This early experience set the foundation for a career dedicated to improving and innovating email technologies.

In 1997, Mauro developed a webmail client in C that gained widespread popularity, serving as a trusted solution for many large companies. His expertise in the field continued to grow, and in the early 2000s, he expanded his offerings by creating a comprehensive mail server supporting IMAP, POP3, and SMTP protocols, which he seamlessly bundled with his webmail client.

After two decades, Mauro observed that despite the rapid evolution of technology, the email landscape had remained largely stagnant, with complex, outdated software dominating the space. Driven to modernize email infrastructure, he set out to develop a new mail server from scratch using Rust—a powerful, modern programming language designed for speed, security, and reliability.