Standard method of sending email 1

[Tokhra]

Hi all,

Im looking for the standard method of sending a html based email in a JSP page.

Any emails or links for this? I searched google but im not sure what methods are the "standard" way to do it, without including lots of extra libraries.

Thanks,
Matt.

 

[LFI]

Do you use JRun? Have you tried the jrun:sendmail tags?

<jrun:sendmail host="whateverhost.somedomain.com_or_gov_or_net_or_org" sender="whoever" recipient="<%=addressees%>" subject="<%=subject%>">Message here.
</jrun:sendmail>

--Dave

 

[Tokhra]

Hi Dave, thanks for the response, no I don't use JRun unfortunately, im using Tomcat.

I found this:

http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/JavaMail/contents.html#JavaMailSending

but im a bit confused on the following line:

// Setup mail server
props.put("mail.smtp.host", host);

the first param would be: smtp.myserver.com and what is host? the port? its just a string in the above link

 

[siberian]

I do not recommend using sendmail. Its not truly crossplatform and can break in migrations ,even from UNIX to UNIX. This to me defeats a major bonus of doing your development in Java.

I recommend using Sun's JavaMail interface. Its truly cross-platform and interfaces directly at the SMTP level, giving fine control over error conditions and authentication.

http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/

 

[Tokhra]

Thanks for the response siberian, luckily enough im going that route but having a few problems, see my last post

 

[Tokhra]

Oh,

// Setup mail server
props.put("mail.smtp.host", host);

Host would be smtp.myserver.com and the first param is the name of the property, am I right?

 

[siberian]

You are correct.