Anjul Srivastava wrote:
Could somebody please give me a quick summary of how to install Sun's
JavaMail implementation into geronimo? Or a web link that explains how?
The tutorial I found at IBM's site did not work out for me, probably
because it relates to an older version. I couldn't find anything else
that was comprehensive (that is that did not already assume I knew how
to configure things about geronimo)
I am a new geronimo user. I got the 1.0 tar.gz and unzipped it into
/usr/local on my Linux Fedora Core 2 server. I do not know much
beyond that.
Background on how far I got so far: A short mail program didn't work
because it complained about not finding "smtp." I read the mailing
lists on this, and understood that you can't include Sun's impl. due
to license issues. Next I downloaded Sun's implementation mail.jar
and activation.jar and put them in the WEB-INF/lib directory of my
web-app. That made things smoother, but not close to perfect. The
problem was that certain methods were unimplmented (something like
setting the file name of an attachment.)
This sounds like you're picking up a mixture of the Sun smtp transport
implementation and the Geronimo javamail API code (which is admittedly
incomplete in the 1.0 version....as you've already discovered). The
simplest solution might be to place the Sun javamail jar files in your
JVM ext directory, which should force those files to be picked up in
preference to the Geronimo ones.
Another option might be to replace the Geronimo versions of javamail and
jaf in the repository. These are located in
repository/org.apache.geronimo.specs. I suspect you might need to
rename the Sun jar files to have the Geronimo names.
More importantly, attachments that I create show up weird in my email
as if they were one large chunk of plain-text. When I ran the same
code through jboss, they came through normal as separate attachments
and also setting the file name of the attachment worked fine.
I'm working on cleaning up/completing the javamail code for a future
release. Any chance you could create a small program that shows the
sequence of calls you're making so I can verify that this will work
correctly using the new code? This doesn't even need to run inside of
Geronimo, just a small class that sends an email using Sun's versions
should do.
If only I could install the Sun implementation into geronimo, I
wouldn't need to revert back to jboss. (plaintive whine intended to
earn sympathy from jboss-disliking-gernonimo-gurus)
Thanks,
Anjul.
- JavaMail Anjul Srivastava
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