Yes. Create a class for sending emails that has it's own thread. Have it look at some data structure to get a mail message object to be sent and wait for as long as there are no mails to be sent.
In your servlet have it create a mail object and give it to the mail sending class. This way sending mail only requires putting a mail object onto some datastructure from the perspective of the servlet. Then it returns. You can't of course know whether the mail was sent succesfully or not but that's the trade off. d. Richard Johnstone wrote:
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