Fixing javamail (again)

[Rick McGuire]

There have been 3 javamail questions on the user list in recent weeks 
about how to resolve a NoSuchProviderException trying to use SMTP.  
These problems all had the same root cause, having the javax.mail and 
the provider implementations in separate jar files.  It's not obvious to 
most people that the dependency requirement exists and occasionally, 
even adding the dependency doesn't fix the problem.  There was a recent 
problem of trying to use javamail from a Quartz job class where it was 
necessary to explicitly set the context classloader before requesting a 
transport instance to ensure the correct class loader was getting used.  
This was a situation that could not occur with the Sun javamail 
implementation because the api code and the providers are contained in 
the same jar file. 

This problem can be easily corrected if we just switched the references 
to the javamail spec file to the geronimo-javamail_1.3_mail uber jar 
that contains the merged spec and provider classes.  More and more users 
are tripping over this problem, which can be very easily corrected.  Are 
there any objections to making this change in 1.2?

Rick