I don't believe that using JavaMail would be "reinventing the wheel" ...
It's just that our current implementation was done prior to the
availability of
JavaMail. I thought the least intrusive approach would be to replace
the
"mail sender" object I referenced below. So I have 2 choices .... write
it
myself using JavaMail, or research commercial availability. Would then
tradeoff the value of my time (download and install JavaMail and JAF,
learn
the API, and develop the object) versus the price of the commercial
alternative.
And if a commercial alternative does exist that already leverages the
JavaMail API, then that's the wheel I would be re-inventing ...
// Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Pratt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 11:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Accommodating email attachments
>
> Why do you think that using JavaMail is reinventing the wheel?
> JavaMail is
> the wheel when you're talking about accessing email from Java.
> JavaMail is
> a fairly clean, powerful API that provides (pretty much) all the
> capabilities you will need to send ugly text only messages, pretty
> HTML
> messages, messages with multiple attachments, etc. I'd be interested
> in
> finding out why people think the JavaMail is so difficult, it took me
> about
> one half hour to get my first simple test program working with it.
> (*Chris*)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Winterbottom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 9:05 AM
> Subject: Accommodating email attachments
>
>
> > I'm currently doing server-side email using a Java class purchased
> from
> > LiveSoftware.... i.e., Servlet instantiates the "email sender" class
> and
> > then
> > passes contents of the email composition HTML form to the resulting
> > object.
> >
> > My question: The "email sender" Java class we purchased from
> > LiveSoftware does not accommodate email attachments. Anyone know
> > of any commercially available Java classes that WOULD allow for
> > attachments? (I realize I could dig into JavaMail, etc. but would
> > rather
> > not reinvent the wheel if it's out there someplace.)
> >
> > // Michael Winterbottom
> >
> >
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