Configure your own mail providers and sessions to customize
how mail is handled in the application server. A mail provider encapsulates
a collection of protocol providers, like SMTP, IMAP and POP3, and
others. Mail sessions authenticate users and control access to messaging
systems.
About this task
The application server includes a default mail provider
that is called the built-in provider. If you use the default mail
provider, you only have to configure the mail session.
To use
a customized mail provider, you must create the mail session and provider.
Procedure
- Create the mail session.
- In the administrative console, click .
- Select the scope for the new mail session.
- Click New.
- Type the mail session name in the Name field.
- Type the JNDI name in the JNDI Name field.
- Optional: Enable strict Internet address
parsing. This option specifies whether the recipient addresses
must be parsed in strict compliance with RFC 822, which is a specifications
document that is issued by the Internet Architecture Board. This setting
is not generally used for most mail applications, and by default this
setting is not enabled.
RFC 822 syntax for parsing addresses effectively
enforces a strict definition of a valid e-mail address. If you select
this setting, your mail component adheres to RFC 822 syntax and rejects
recipient addresses that do not parse into valid e-mail addresses
as defined by the specification. If you do not select this setting,
your mail component does not adhere to RFC 822 syntax and accepts
recipient addresses that do not comply with the specification. You
can view the RFC 822 specification at the web site for the World Wide
Web Consortium.
- Optional: Enable debug mode. Select
this option to print interaction between the mail application and
the mail servers and the properties of this mail session to the SystemOut.log
file.
- Provide information for the incoming mail service, outgoing
service, or both. Enter the following information in the
fields that are provided:
- Server
- Protocol
- User
- Password
- Return e-mail address. This field is available for outgoing mail
properties.
- Click Apply or OK.
- Create the mail provider, and optionally define one or
more protocol providers. In the administrative console,
click .
- Select the scope for the new mail provider.
- Click New.
- Type the name of the mail provider in the name field.
- Optional: Isolate the mail provider.
New feature: You can isolate a mail provider to
allow different versions of the same provider to be loaded in the
same Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM). For example, you
might want to deploy multiple applications on a single server, but
each application requires different versions or implementations of
the mail provider. You can now isolate each version or implementation
of the provider, and the provider will be loaded in its own class
loader and will not interfere with other implementations. There are
some general considerations for isolating any type of resource provider;
refer to the topic on considerations for isolated resource providers
for more information.
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- Select Isolate this mail provider.
- Give the mail provider a unique class path that is appropriate
for that version or implementation.
- Click Apply or OK.
- Define one or more protocol providers for the mail provider.
- Click mail_provider.
- Click Protocol Providers.
- Click New.
- Type the protocol name in the Protocol field.
- Type the class name in the Class name field.
- Select the type of mail server that this protocol provider supports.
Select TRANSPORT or STORE. TRANSPORT corresponds to outgoing mail
services, and STORE corresponds to incoming mail services.
- Click Apply or OK.
Ensure that every mail session is defined under a parent mail
provider. Select a mail provider first and then create your new mail
session.
- Optional: Configure the mail session.
- Click mail_provider.
- Click Mail Sessions.
- Click mail_session.
- Make changes to appropriate fields.
- Click Apply or OK.
What to do next
If your application has a client, you can configure mail
providers and sessions using the Application Client Resource Configuration
Tool.