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Java Training Introduction to Java Mail What is JavaMail? -1 JavaMail is an API for sending and receiving email using Java. The current version is 1.3.1 and can be downloaded from Sun's website at: http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/ Possible uses: Send email from web pages using servlets Create a GUI email client Send email from Java stored procedures Send email from any type of Java application Spam your friends and enemies! (read email addresses from a database, write a for () loop, and away the emails go!) What is JavaMail? -2 To send JavaMail, you'll need to add at least two JAR files from Sun to your classpath (placing them in a lib directory may be a good idea) activation.jar mail.jar (Note: You can download these files from the Java Zone) For more complex emailing tasks (like receiving or managing pop3 or imap mail servers), you'll need to download additional files like pop3.jar and imap.jar. You will also need access to a mail server and possibly a username/password for that mail server How Does Email Work? In general, each internet domain has an email server. When you send out an email Your email client program sends the message to your email server Your email server contacts the addressee's email server using the SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) Your email server verifies that the addressee's user name is valid Your email server then transfers the email to the addressee's email server When the addressee logs into his email server (using his email client program), he gets his email Mail Servers (sendmail)-1 sendmail is the most commonly used mail server in the world, as it generally comes free with Unix and Linux installations very powerful and flexible. Supports POP3 and IMAP well documented (lots of books on setting up sendmail) long track record (first version appeared in early '80s) tedious to set up (lots of cryptic configuration files) free www.sendmail.org Mail Servers (qmail)-2 qmail is probably the most popular alternative to sendmail in the UNIX world perhaps more secure than sendmail (at least older versions of sendmail) Easier to set up and administer than sendmail pretty good documentation (several books written on qmail in the past few years) free http://www.qmail.org/top.html Mail Servers (MS Exchange)-2 MS Exchange is widely used in the Windows world, especially in corporate environments that use MS Office (and hence MS Outlook) Expensive Integrated into MS Active Directory GUI administration tools are easier to learn for Windows people MS Outlook is a powerful and slick email program that will work with Exchange, sendmail, or qmail. It does, however, have a history of security vulnerabilities and some organizations refuse to use it because of that. POP3, IMAP, MAPI -1 Currently, the most popular protocols are POP3 (Post Office Protocol, version 3) IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface-- Microsoft Windows email interface) POP3 POP3 is the oldest and most widely used. It was designed to support offline mail processing. Mail is delivered to a server and a user's computer runs a mail client program to download any new mail Once messages are delivered, they are generally deleted from the mail server This minimizes disk space requirements for mail server, but ties the mail to a particular machine. If user goes to another computer, he can't access his mail POP3 has limited support for reading mail online (and leaving the mail on the mail server) Simpler protocol than IMAP makes it easier to implement. More POP3 mail clients available IMAP IMAP Developed at University of Washington Primarily used to access mail and leave it on the mail server. This allows users to access their mail from any computer Requires more disk space to store email messages Can work in "offline" mode like POP3 Easy to manage multiple mailboxes Supports tagging emails with flags like "read", "deleted", "answered", etc.