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The Commons Email team of the Jakarta Project of the ASF is happy to announce the release of Commons Email 1.0.

commons email

Ok I sort of snickered at something that wraps JavaMail and is aimed at making JavaMail "easier". Yet upon inspection commons email is pretty slick and is a great idea. I have a mail utility class that does almost exactly what some of commons email does (also wrapping JavaMail), and therefore I guess it is a good idea to centralize the "common" utility oriented stuff.

This is how you send email in java from here on out:
SimpleEmail email = new SimpleEmail();
email.setHostName("mail.myserver.com");
email.addTo("jdoe@somewhere.org", "John Doe");
email.setFrom("me@apache.org", "Me");
email.setSubject("Test message");
email.setMsg("This is a simple test of commons-email");
email.send();

And note that it can do a lot more than this, this is the ultra simple example.