Administering JavaMail on Liberty

You can configure JavaMail on Liberty by adding and configuring elements in the server.xml file.

About this task

If you have an external mail server, you can use the JavaMail API to send and receive email on applications that are running on a Liberty server. The API allows applications to interact with the external mail server by providing common store and transport protocols, such as POP3, IMAP, and SMTP.

Liberty supports JavaMail 1.5. For more information about JavaMail 1.5, see the JavaMail API documentation.

For information about the elements and attributes that you can use to configure JavaMail on Liberty, see JavaMail-1.5.

Procedure

In the server.xml file, add the javaMail-1.5 feature.
After you add the feature, you can call the JavaMail libraries in any application that runs on the server.
```
<featureManager>
        <feature>javaMail-1.5</feature>
</featureManager>
```

Optional: If you want to create a javax.mail.Session object, add and configure a mailSession element.

After the mail session is configured, the session is created and injected by using the Java™ Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI).

Note: If you use the standard JNDI context, java:comp/env/mail/exampleMailSession, configure the jndiName attribute as jndiName="mail/exampleMailSession".

<mailSession 	mailSessionID="examplePop3MailSession"  
		jndiName="ExampleApp/POP3Servlet/exampleMailSession"
		description="POP3 javax.mail.Session"
		storeProtocol="pop3"
		transportProtocol="smtp"
		host="exampleserver.com"
		user="iamanexample@example.com"
		password="example"
		from="smtp@testserver.com">
	 <property name="mail.pop3.host" value="pop3.example.com" />
	 <property name="mail.pop3.port" value="3110" />
</mailSession>