JavaMail

The JavaMail API provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail and messaging applications. The JavaMail API is available as an optional package for use with Java SE platform and is also included in the Java EE platform.

JavaMail API 1.4.3 Release
The JavaMail 1.4.3 release contains several bug fixes and enhancements. Note: Unless you're using Java SE 6, you will also need the JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) extension that provides the javax.activation package. We suggest you use version 1.1.1 of JAF, the latest release. JAF is included with Java SE 6.

What's New

March 10, 2009
JavaMail available from maven repository The latest production and development builds of JavaMail are now available from the java.net maven2 repository. The repository contains the JavaMail mail.jar file only. You'll want to download the full JavaMail distribution to get the JavaMail documentation, sample programs, etc. JavaMail versions before 1.4.3 are available from the older java.net maven repository.

March 2, 2009
JavaMail is now open source! The source code for the JavaMail API Reference Implementation is now available in the Mercurial repository at the JavaMail project on Kenai.

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