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 1.5.0 Release
The JavaMail 1.5.0 release contains 17 API updates and enh. Note: Unless you're using Java SE 6 or newer, 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 and newer.

What's New

April 8, 2013

JavaMail 1.5.0 released, including 17 API updates defined through the Java Community Process, plus these features:
- EXPERIMENTAL Gmail IMAP provider
- support for debug output using java.util.logging

April 3, 2013

The open source JavaMail project has moved to java.net! The source code for the JavaMail API Reference Implementation is now available in the Mercurial repository at the JavaMail project on java.net.