Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

Getting started

Before we get too far into the application, let's stop and take a quick look at what is involved in email. For being such a ubiquitous tool, it seems that it's a fairly opaque topic for most people, even the technically minded who might be inclined to read a book such as this. If we're going to work with it, it will be extremely helpful to understand it, even if just a bit. If you are not interested in the details of the protocols themselves, then feel free to skip ahead to the next section.