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 1.4.5 Release
The JavaMail 1.4.5 release contains several bug fixes and enhancements. 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

December 4, 2012

JavaMail 1.4.6 Release Candidate is available. It includes bug fixes and new features, including:
- EXPERIMENTAL Gmail IMAP provider
- support for debug output using java.util.logging

March 23, 2012

JavaMail 1.4.5 released Includes new features and bug fixes, including:
- SOCKS5 support (requires JDK 1.5 or newer)
- authentication information (e.g., passwords) is no longer included in debug output by default

March 10, 2009

JavaMail available from Maven Repository The latest release and development builds of JavaMail are now available from the java.net Maven Repository. Released builds are also available from the Maven Central Repository. The repository contains the JavaMail 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.