DO NOT REPLY [Bug 43304] - [PATCH] Maven POM dependencies

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------- Additional Comments From dennisl@apache.org  2007-11-27 14:04 -------
The javax.mail dependency should not be marked as provided. Provided means that
the dependency will always be provided by the target environment.

An example to highlight why it would be wrong to mark it as provided. Say you
have a command line application that uses log4j for logging. The user of the
application decides to add an SMTPAppender to send email if something goes
fataly wrong. Now the user needs to take action to make this work. He or she
needs to copy the javamail jar into the classpath of the application. In other
words: javax.mail is not provided by the target environment.

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