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The Content-ID header, set with setContentID, needs to be formatted like <cid>. You need to make sure the < and > signs are present. Some mail readers work without them, many don't.more

The MIME content-type "multipart/alternative" is intended so you can send different versions of the same "message" all bundled together, e.g. an HTML version, a plain text version, maybe an audio ...more

Sure. import java.util.Properties; import javax.mail.*; import javax.mail.internet.*; public class MailExample { public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception { String host = ar...more

Since the Message class doesn't implement the Comparable interface, you'll need to create a custom Comparator. Then, you can call Arrays.sort(arrayOfMessages, comparator).

How do I display POP3 message body properly in a browser? When i use message.writeTO() it displays without line breaks.

When included as an attachment, binary files are encoded to be 7-bit safe. This means that what used to be 8-bits per byte is now 7, hence the increase.

You should configure a JavaMail resource for your EJB container and access it by JNDI. It works just like JavaMail in an application without setting up the connection first. You just get it from t...more

See the help document at http://james.apache.org/james_and_sendmail.html.

Contribution information is available from http://james.apache.org/contribute.html.

James can be freely used and is released under the Apache Software License. http://james.apache.org/license.html.

The open source app ZOE offers one.

According to Joseph Shraibman on the JAVAMAIL-INTEREST mailing list: JavaMail checks if the connection is good by sending a NOOP command. It does this before sending each mail message. The probl...more

According to Bill Shannon, primary JavaMail engineer: The timeout is implemented by starting a thread to make the connection and if it doesn't complete before the timeout, the thread is abandoned ...more

Email headers can only contain 7-bit US ASCII characters, according to the Internet standards (mainly RFC 2822, also 2821). For any characters outside that charset, they have to be encoded first. ...more

RFC 822 defines what a group address is. It allows one to prefix a list of email addresses with a label, followed by a colon, as in: jGurus: a@example.com, John <b@example.com>, "Joe" <c...more