Sending email from JSP

[Dilip kumar]

Hi,

I need to create a JSP page (contact.jsp) which will have an option of sending email. Code for sending the email will be server-side script. I'm confused about where should I to put logic. Java class or Servlet or another JSP file ? After sending the email system should come back to contact.jsp with status. Really appreciate any ideas.

Thanks

[Bear Bibeault]

Any type of processing which does not render the view should not be done in a JSP.

The mail generation itself would use the JavaMail API.

[Chetan Parekh]

Don�t try to fire email as soon as user submits the page.

The ideal way is, first insert mail details in database, have one mail daemon that periodically query the database and send mail as per the data exist in database and also log the success or failure status in the database.

The advantage of this way is that, if by any reasons there is problem in email sending routine, you can send emails later on after solving the problem as you already have failed email details in database.