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6.6.37: Administering mail providers and mail sessions (overview)
6.6.37: Administering mail providers and mail sessions (overview)
WebSphere Application Server's implementation of
JavaMail does not provide mail servers. Even if your application components can communicate
with mail servers, you still must configure separate IMAP and SMTP servers
to enable the mail functions.
Only the SMTP and IMAP service providers are shipped with WebSphere Application Server.
To use other protocols, install the appropriate service providers for those protocols.
When you configure your mail servers, use fully qualified internet host names.
For information on how to install a service provider, see Chapter 5, The Mail Session, in the
Java Mail API design specification.
The parameters used to configure a mail session resource can be divided
into two groups:
- mail send (transport) and
- mail store access
If your enterprise application references a mail session
resource, your application will use one of these functions:
- only mail-send
- both mail-send and mail-store access
- only mail-store access
Use of the only mail store-access option is
rare. As such, the store access part of the configuration is treated by
System Management as optional while the mail-send function is
treated as mandatory.
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