I did some further research into the original Taglibs Mailer I was using ( http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/mailer-doc/mailer-1.1/index.html). I was using one of the three ways that mail can be sent using that tag: simply using the name of the SMTP host and authentication userid & password within the tag. The second requires the name of a JNDI Resource for a JavaMail Session. I'm going to research this second way as I think it will give me the options of specifying/configuring the JavaMail session to better authenticate using NTLM.I really want to continue using the taglib way of sending my emails from my Java Server Pages. I saw another post by someone outlining a servlet a user wrote to grab the Request properties of the parsed JSP to pass to the commons-email package but I wanted to continue using my taglib at the presentation layer to assist with the kind of rapid development I'm looking for. I was kind of surprised that no one seems to be actively working on the mailer taglibs considering that sending email from webapps is such a key function but it appears that with a little further research in setting up a Javamail JNDI session on the Tomcat Server, I can be able to more accurately configure the connection properties to allow for NTLM authentication. That was my original problem: the way I was using the tag didn't allow for a more sophisticated specification/configuration of the connection parameters. But it looks like I will be able to configure the JavaMail connection at the server level and still use the same old tag that has now been strangely retired.
-- Ferindo
