How to communicate with a mail server through a web application

Question

I am really unfamiliar with mail servers in general so please excuse my ignorance.

I need to be able to administer a mail server through my Spring-based web applicat

Answer 1

There is a mail server called Zimbra which has an open source community edition, which has a REST interface and also a SOAP one.

• REST reference (if I understand correctly this won't suit your needs because you can only manipulate existing account via this)
• SOAP interface; one example here, there are many others on the forum.