sending mail

[Pradeep Nair C]

i want to send mail to my friend having hotmail account using jsp code. is it possible using jsp or it required other things?

[sameera kocharekar]

Hi
u need to have a SMTP server
and there are different packages which u can use
sun.net.smtp.SmtpClient
or u can use javamail
these two i know of
both these i have used in my code
there may be others
so u need to descide..
Sam

[James Moore]

Some mail servers have a "Drop" directory where you can create a file with the SMTP headers and the email body. The mail server simply scans the drop directory on a schedule and sends the mails out.
If you did this it would simply be a case of file I/O.
Regards
James