+1 -- Kind Regards, Ashish Vijaywargiya Vice President of Operations *HotWax Systems* *Enterprise open source experts* http://www.hotwaxsystems.com
On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 5:28 PM Mridul Pathak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'd like to propose upgrading OFBiz's mail library from javax.mail to its > modern replacement, Jakarta Mail (Eclipse Angus Mail). > > > *javax.mail 1.6.2* predates the Jakarta EE rename, and OFBiz's servlet > layer has already made that jump (Tomcat 10.1 / jakarta.servlet, Java 17) — > mail is one of the pieces still lagging behind. The library's own upstream > has moved too: Sun/Oracle's JavaMail implementation is now maintained as > Eclipse Angus Mail against the Jakarta Mail API spec. > > > In practice, that's a straightforward swap: *com.sun.mail:javax.mail:1.6.2* > becomes *jakarta.mail:jakarta.mail-api + org.eclipse.angus:angus-mail*, > with the affected imports renamed to match. It's a pure API-surface change, > with no behavioral difference. > > > Planning to file a JIRA ticket shortly — let me know if anyone sees a > reason to avoid this. > > > Thanks, > > Mridul Pathak >
