Overview

JavaMail API let´s you introduce mail sending and recieving capatibilities to your system very simply. It does not provides a SMTP or IMAP server itself, but it can interact with those systems, letting things like recieving and sending messages in any MIME type (including HTML mail), with attached files and all the other stuff mail clients can do.

With the spread of WebServices, it is a good way to go through SMTP/SOAP clients and servers.

See Also

java.sun.com Sun´s JavaMail Site

java.sun.com JAVABEANS ACTIVATION FRAMEWORK (JAF)