Another alternative is to remove the use of the validate() method. I created a bugzilla ticket with patch here:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36536 ... or if email doesn't accept that change - then you could patch the Email class yourself Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "sebb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 12:56 AM So one work-round might be to download JavaMail 1.3 and use that to replace the existing JavaMail version? However, I suppose this might cause other things to break ... unless you can add it just for Commons Email. S. On 06/09/05, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In JavaMail 1.2 you had no choice over how "strict" in checking the RFC822 > syntax of an email address was - whether you used the static parse() method > or the InternetAddress constructor to create a new InternetAddress object. > > In JavaMail 1.3 flavours of the parse() method and InternetAddress > constructor were added with a "strict" flag so that there was the option of > creating InternetAddress without strictly enforcing RFC822 syntax - the > reason being, in their words "To better support the range of "invalid" > addresses seen in real messages". > > Commons Email is however not constructing InternetAddress with an argument > of strict=false and therefore I believe the use of the validate() method is > completley spurious - since its going to throw any AddressExceptions when > the InternetAddress objects are constucted. I believe you could just remove > the line calling the validate() method in the Email.createInternetAddress() > method with no difference in behaviour. > > One other point - there don't appear to be any tests of invalid email > addresses in TestEmail. If there were, it would be easy to verify this. > > Niall > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Colebourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <[email protected]> > > > > Asleson, Ryan wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just tried using Commons-Email RC5 on WebLogic 8.1. When using the > Email.addTo method, I receive a NoSuchMethodError. > > > > > > It appears that the Email class is attempting to use > InternetAddress.validate(), which is part of J2EE 1.4, not 1.3. Since I'm > using WebLogic 8.1, which is only J2EE 1.3, it looks like I'm stuck. > > > > > > Is there any way around this? > > > > This sounds like something that should be fixed. Not sure what the > > alternative to this method is though... > > > > Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
