12. Sending and Receiving Email
Email has been called the killer application of the Internet and is used in many applications. It is very likely that at some point you will want to support email in one of your own Java applications. Fortunately, Java has excellent support for integrating email into your Java applications using the JavaMail API. The JavaMail API is an extension to the core Java. Because of this, you have to download it separately. It is not a part of the standard JDK download. The relevant classes that make up the JavaMail API are in the javax.mail package. The current JavaMail API requires JDK 1.4 or newer. Earlier versions of the JDK require an older version of the JavaMail API.
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