WebLogic Server includes the JavaMail API version 1.1.3 reference implementation from Sun Microsystems. Using the JavaMail API, you can add email capabilities to your WebLogic Server applications. JavaMail provides access from Java applications to IMAP- and SMTP-capable mail servers on your network or the Internet. It does not provide mail server functionality; so you must have access to a mail server to use JavaMail.
To configure JavaMail for use in WebLogic Server, you create a Mail Session in the WebLogic Server Administration Console. This allows server-side components and applications to access JavaMail services with JNDI, using Session properties you preconfigure for them. For example, by creating a Mail Session, you can designate the mail hosts, transport and store protocols, and the default mail user in the Administration Console so that components that use JavaMail do not have to set these properties. Applications that are heavy email users benefit because WebLogic Server creates a single Session object and makes it available via JNDI to any component that needs it.
