Commons mail API Vs Linux sendmail

[Ankur Agarwal <an...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,
   
  I am eager to know wgat are the benefits of using Jakarta's commons mail API over sendmail utility? 
   
  Specifically what are the functionalities that i cannot achieve using sendmail or vice-cersa? e.g. attachments?
   
  regards,
  Ankur

 
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Re: Commons mail API Vs Linux sendmail

[Jochen Wiedmann <jo...@gmail.com>]

On 1/24/07, Ankur Agarwal <an...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>   I am eager to know wgat are the benefits of using Jakarta's commons mail API over sendmail utility?
>
>   Specifically what are the functionalities that i cannot achieve using sendmail or vice-cersa? e.g. attachments?

If you want to use sendmail, you'll need a wrapper library anyways:
Calling sendmail from the command line isn't as trivial as it might
seem. Second, even on a Linux system you cannot depend on the presence
of sendmail: A lot of machines are running Exim, Postfix or whatever
SMTP server. Finally, why not use a platform independent solution?

Jochen


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