Java Mail

In the article “How to send e-mail with Java”, you are familiar with the JavaMail API on sending e-mail messages from a SMTP server. What about receiving e-mail messages? Well, that is the topic of this article. We will study how the JavaMail API exposes classes and interfaces for retrieving e-mail messages from a server, to write a utility class that checks for new messages in inbox of an e-mail account from Gmail server.

Protocols for receiving e-mail

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Mail API

Sending an e-mail is a trivial task in the information world today. Billions of e-mails are sent everyday on the earth. For those who are Java developers, the ability to send e-mail from within a Java program is trivial also. However the standard Java platform does not include any e-mail functionality by default. Instead, developers have to use a separate library for the e-mail things, it is the JavaMail API. This article will guide you on how to write an email utility to send an e-mail out with ...

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Mail API