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We have an existing Java web application that occasionally needs to send users an email with an image attachment. Right now, the J2EE web app is running on Tomcat in Windows, and we just have it exec() a process that runs the tiny little Blat program, like this:




As you can see, all I need to be able to do is send a little email with an image attachment. I don't even care if I can't BCC our log email address anymore. What would be the quickest/simplest/easiest solution to get the same functionality when we move this web app to Tomcat on Linux? From what I've read, sendmail might be a bigger deal than what I'm looking for. I'd love to be able to do it from within pure Java, but I don't know that I've run across any way to do it without getting into the whole JavaMail API...

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You might take a look at Jakarta's commons-email.

It's an easy to use interface for the JavaMail package. It's also just out of the sandbox and unreleased...you'll probably have to pull it off the CVS and compile it yourself.

Anyway, I use it for html email with attachments and have had no problems.
 
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Thanks for the post. I'm sure I might pick up that commons package at some point. I actually don't even need HTML in my emails. Anyway, right now this guy's code is good enough for sending binary attachments:

http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0083.html
 
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Originally posted by Stephen Huey:
http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0083.html



Ouch.

commons-email is more of a 'put stuff in envelope, address and send' approach (as opposed to the 'make paper, make ink, use ink to write letter...etc' approach)

it'll do text or html with or without attachments.
 
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Originally posted by Stephen Huey:

I'd love to be able to do it from within pure Java, but I don't know that I've run across any way to do it without getting into the whole JavaMail API...



If you're running in Tomcat, you should look into this before going too far.
There is also an example in the /examples webapp.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html

Life is much easier when you can let the container worry about setting up the mail session and deal with threads, etc..
 
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Thanks. Looks good! I'm hoping we'll move from Tomcat 4 to Tomcat 5 before too long, so maybe then we can make use of that...


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