NOTES ===== Jakarta Mail API 2.0.1 release ------------------------------ Welcome to the 2.0.1 release of the Jakarta Mail API implementation. Please refer to CHANGES.txt for a list of the changes since the previous release. Please see the FAQ at https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/mail/FAQ Protocol Providers ------------------ The Jakarta Mail API jar file "jakarta.mail.jar" includes the full Jakarta Mail API implementation and the Sun protocol providers - IMAP, SMTP, and POP3. The simplest way to use the Jakarta Mail API is to just use the jakarta.mail.jar file and ignore the other jar files in this package. In some cases it may be desirable to minimize the size of the Jakarta Mail API code used by an application (e.g., in a microservice). In this case you might want to include the "mailapi.jar" file, which includes *no* protocol providers, along with just the jar file for the protocol provider you need. For example, a microservice that only needs to send mail could use the "mailapi.jar" file and the "smtp.jar" file. An important note when using the separate protocol provider jar files: - You can't mix and match the Sun protocol providers between different releases of the Jakarta Mail API. The Sun protocol providers depend on implementation-specific utility APIs within the mailapi.jar file. (Third party protocol providers that don't depend on these APIs should work fine.) NOTE: The Sun protocol provider documentation is included in the javadocs for the Jakarta Mail API. This documentation describes how to use features of the Sun protocol providers to directly access some features of the SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 protocols that are not otherwise supported by the standard Jakarta Mail API. Gmail IMAP Provider ------------------- This release includes an EXPERIMENTAL Gmail IMAP provider. Normal use of Gmail is handled by the standard "imap" protocol provider, but the new "gimap" protocol provider supports additional Gmail-specific non-standard features. See the javadocs for the com.sun.mail.gimap package for details. Note that the gimap.jar file needs to be added to your CLASSPATH to use this new provider. SASL Support ------------ On systems that support the Java SASL API (javax.security.sasl, JSR-28), such as J2SE 5.0 and later, the IMAP provider can use the SASL API to find an appropriate authentication mechanism. The SASL API also allows you to plug in support for custom authentication mechanisms. See The Java SASL API Programming and Deployment Guide at https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/sasl/sasl-refguide.html for details on developing custom SASL mechanisms. See the javadocs for the com.sun.mail.imap package for the properties required to enable and configure SASL support. DSN Support ----------- This release of Jakarta Mail includes EXPERIMENTAL support for creating and parsing Delivery Status Notifications, as defined by RFC 3462 and RFC 3464. To make use of this support you need to include dsn.jar in your CLASSPATH along with jakarta.mail.jar. See the javadocs for the com.sun.mail.dsn package for more details. The DSN package also provides support for creating and parsing Message Disposition Notifications, as defined by RFC 3798. The APIs unique to this package should be considered EXPERIMENTAL. They may be changed in the future in ways that are incompatible with applications using the current APIs. NTLM Support ------------ This release of Jakarta Mail includes EXPERIMENTAL support for the Microsoft NTLM authentication mechanism used by Exchange. See the file NTLMNOTES.txt for details. OSGi Support ------------ The Jakarta Mail jar files are now OSGi bundles. Please let us know of any problems using Jakarta Mail with OSGi. How to submit bug reports ------------------------- If you've found a bug, or if you just need help figuring out how to use the Jakarta Mail API, please try to include the following information in your message to us: - a program or code snippet that shows the problem - the platform you are using - the mail server (vendor name, version number) you are using - your environment variable settings - a stack trace, if appropriate - a protocol trace, after turning on session debugging, if appropriate Most of the problems reported to us fail to include enough of the above information to allow us to diagnose your problem. It will save you and us time if you include this information in your first message to us. By far the most common problems we see are: Your problem: Something doesn't work right when talking to my mail server. Our response: Turn on session debugging and send us the protocol trace. See the demo program documentation for how to turn on session debugging for the demo programs. In your own program, call "session.setDebug(true);". Your problem: jakarta.mail or jakarta.activation classes not found when compiling. Our response: You didn't set CLASSPATH correctly to find jakarta.mail.jar and jakarta.activation.jar. See README.txt. Your problem: NoSuchProviderException - No such provider for rfc822. Our response: You unjar'ed jakarta.mail.jar. Don't. Your problem: How do I create a message with an attachment? Our response: Create a message with a MimeMultipart content. See the sendfile.html and msgmultisendsample.java demo programs. Please check the FAQ at https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/mail/FAQ before submitting bug reports. Send your bug reports to: mail-dev@eclipse.org Servers tested with: -------------------- The IMAP implementation works with IMAP4 and IMAP4rev1 servers. The current release has been tested with: Oracle Beehive Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.0 UW IMAP4 server version 2003.339 Cyrus IMAP4 server version 1.6.19 Microsoft Exchange 2010 Microsoft Exchange 2013 Microsoft Exchange 2016 Previous releases have been tested with: Sun Java System Messaging Server version 5.2 Sun Java System Messaging Server version 6.3 Sun Java System Messaging Server version 7.0 Sun Internet Mail Server version 2.0, 3.2, and 4.0 Netscape Messaging Server version 3.01 and 4.1 Microsoft MCIS Mail Server Lotus Notes Software.com IMAP server Qualcomm Worldmail The current release of the SMTP implementation has been tested with: Sendmail version 8.13.8 Oracle Beehive Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.0 Microsoft Exchange 2010 Microsoft Exchange 2013 Microsoft Exchange 2016 Previous releases have been tested with: Sendmail version 8.6 and 8.9.1 Sun Java System Messaging Server version 5.2 Sun Java System Messaging Server version 6.3 Sun Java System Messaging Server version 7.0 Sun Internet Mail Server version 3.2 and 4.0 Netscape Messaging Server version 3.01 and 4.1 Microsoft Exchange Microsoft MCIS Mail Server Qualcomm Worldmail How to give feedback -------------------- Please send your feedback to this email-address: mail-dev@eclipse.org Check out our website at https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/mail/. You can also find help on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javamail ------------------------------------------------------------------