Apache Commons Email

Apache Commons Email was built on the standard, built-in Java Mail API.

The Commons Email library works similarly to the original tool, only with a far better organized codebase, and using a much more simplified interface.

The library can be used for a wide variety of email-related tasks, like:
- Plain-text email sending
- HTML email sending
- Attachments handling
- Image embedding
- Multipart emails
- Handling bounced emails
- SMTP authentication
- Debugging
- SSL support
- STARTTLS support

What is new in this release:

• "Email" threw an "EmailException" when trying to send the email if neither a from nor bounce address was specified, although a "mail.from" property was set in the mail session.
• "ImageHtmlEmail" failed to embed attachments if their data source name was null.
• HTML emails did not have the correct content-type set when using the Apache Geronimo JavaMail implementation v1.8.x.
• Added getter for the bounce address of an email to class Email.
• Update Oracle JavaMail dependency from 1.4.5 to 1.5.2.
• An "HtmlEmail" with both, an html and plain text content but no attachments or embedded images will now be created with mimetype "multipart/alternative" instead of "multipart/mixed".
• Added support for mapping of content-ids to DataSource in "MimeMessageParser".

What is new in version 1.3.3:

• Fixed test execution errors with Java 8.
• The filename of an attachment was not properly encoded in case it contained non-ASCII characters.
• Fixed MimeMessageParser did not correctly parse MimeMessage objects created by calling HtmlEmail.buildMimeMessage() and HtmlEmail.getMimeMessage().
• Fixed Javadoc 1.8 errors.

What is new in version 1.3:

• Added new methods addTo(String[]), addCc(String[]) and addBcc(String[]) to Email.
• HtmlmageEmail should support class path resources.
• Added a MultiPartEmail.attach(File) method since attaching a file is a simple and common.
• Added MimeMessageParser and MimeMessageUtils.

What is new in version 1.2:

• Made BaseEmailTestCase abstract and fixed a few coding issues.
• Created additional methods to support timeouts.
• Create an overridable method in Email.java to create the MimeMessage instance.
• Email.setFrom and Email.addTo are using Email.charset to properly encode the name.
• Add getTo and getReplyTo to Email class.

Requirements:

• Java 5 or higher