How To Receive Email In A Java App

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yegor256

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answered Feb 18 '09 at 13:36

Peter ŠtibranýPeter Štibraný

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Definitely a very clean and accessible product. I have some experience with it and I can say there are not many libraries which are so easily integrated.

Feb 18 '09 at 13:41

James is probably your best bet, but email handling is extremely complex, requiring not only configuration of your MTA (the James server), but also DNS. In the past, I've found it easier to initiate my handlers via hooks from non-Java MTA's like postfix. And procmail might also be useful to you. For a Java MTA though, James rocks.

answered Feb 18 '09 at 13:19

jcrossley3jcrossley3

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James is a very complex product. If you only need to receive e-mail, and don't need anything else, use SubEthaSMTP. If you don't have experience wirth James, use SubEthaSMTP and a real e-mail server (postfix) in front of it and let that handle the complex stuff.

Feb 18 '09 at 13:39
James is very complex, and it has little subtleties one has to be aware of while configuring its (very, very verbose) xml file. If you need a mail server in java, James will work. If you need an application mail server, SubEtha+postfix will be much easier and sane.

Feb 27 '09 at 18:01

Apache Commons Net is the perfect library to fetch mails via POP3. IMAP is not supported.

answered Feb 18 '09 at 13:24

guerdaguerda

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mmm...but then I have two constantly poll the server, right? Instead of being a server and sitting idle until email arrives...

Feb 18 '09 at 13:30
Answer out of date perhaps? Supported protocols include: IMAP(S)

May 20 '15 at 14:28