Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Administration Guide

Chapter 5 Configuring JavaMail Resources

The Application Server includes the JavaMail API. The JavaMail API is a set of abstract APIs that model a mail system. The API provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail and messaging applications. The JavaMail API provides facilities for reading, composing, and sending electronic messages. Service providers implement particular protocols. Using the JavaMail API you can add email capabilities to your applications. JavaMail provides access from Java applications to Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)- and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)-capable mail servers on your network or the Internet. It does not provide mail server functionality; you must have access to a mail server to use JavaMail.

To learn more about the JavaMail API, consult the JavaMail web site at http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/index.html

This chapter contains the following section:

Creating a JavaMail Session

To configure JavaMail for use in Application Server, create a Mail Session in the Application Server Admin Console. This allows server-side components and applications to access JavaMail services with JNDI, using the Session properties you assign for them. When creating a Mail Session, you can designate the mail hosts, transport and store protocols, and the default mail user in the Admin Console so that components that use JavaMail do not have to set these properties. Applications that are heavy email users benefit because the Application Server creates a single Session object and makes it available via JNDI to any component that needs it.

To create a JavaMail session using the Admin Console, select Resources > JavaMail Sessions. Specify the JavaMail settings as follows:

Additionally, define the following Advanced settings only if the mail provider has been re-configured to use a non-default store or transport protocol: