sending mail from apache tomcat

Question

I am working on a web project using Tomcat 6 as my webserver and JSP as frontend. I want to send a mail from the web server to an email account. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Using Java-Mail API.

• Take required inputs from JSP,
• Post it to Servlet
• Invoke service method to send Mail from Servlet
• Use Java Mail API to send mails from service method, a quick example