| Commons Email Package |
| Version 1.3.1 |
| Release Notes |
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| INTRODUCTION: |
| ------------- |
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| Commons Email aims to provide a API for sending email. It builds on the JavaMail |
| API with the aim of presenting a simplified API which is easy for developers who |
| are not mail experts to use. It is a compact component with a small number of |
| classes. |
| |
| The Commons Email website is the source for the most recent information, |
| downloads, reports, and bug status: |
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| http://commons.apache.org/email/ |
| |
| This is a maintenance release which fixes several bugs present in the 1.3 |
| release. All current users are encouraged to upgrade. |
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| CHANGES FROM 1.3: |
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| == Compatibility == |
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| * Java 5 or later is required (unchanged since 1.3). |
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| == Fixed Bugs == |
| |
| * DataSourceClassPathResolver will now correctly set the DataSource name for resolved |
| resources. Additionally, it is now possible to set the name for a ByteArrayDataSource. |
| Issue: EMAIL-125. Thanks to Jean-Marc. |
| |
| * Header values are not folded twice anymore. The actual encoding and folding is |
| now only performed in Email.buildMimeMessage(). |
| Issue: EMAIL-124. Thanks to Stefan Schueffler. |
| |
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| CHANGES FROM 1.2: |
| ----------------- |
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| == Compatibility == |
| |
| * Java 5 or later is now required. |
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| == New Features == |
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| * Added new methods addTo(String[]), addCc(String[]) and addBcc(String[]) to Email. |
| Issue: EMAIL-114. Thanks to Gokul Nanthakumar C. |
| |
| * HtmlmageEmail should support class path resources |
| Issue: EMAIL-108. Thanks to Elisabeth Kasimir, Alexander Kasimir. |
| |
| * Added a MultiPartEmail.attach(File) method since attaching a file is a simple and common. |
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| * Added MimeMessageParser and MimeMessageUtils. |
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| == Fixed Bugs == |
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| * Use the provided Content-ID in HtmlEmail#embed(File, String) instead of creating |
| a random one. The used and returned Content-ID will be URL encoded (see RFC 2392). |
| Issue: EMAIL-101. Thanks to Andrew Starodub. |
| |
| * Upgraded source and binary compatibility to JDK 1.5. Additionally the public/protected |
| methods and fields have been properly generified. |
| Issue: EMAIL-122. Thanks to sebb. |
| |
| * Do not set the personal name of an address to the email address unless it is |
| explicitly specified (affects TO, CC, BCC and FROM addresses). |
| Issue: EMAIL-103. Thanks to David Rees. |
| |
| * Removed emulation support for nested exceptions in EmailException. |
| Issue: EMAIL-117. Thanks to sebb. |
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| * Prevent external modification of internal array in DataSourceCompositeResolver. |
| Issue: EMAIL-116. Thanks to sebb. |
| |
| * Close temporary input stream in MultiPartEmail#attach(DataSource, String, String) |
| to prevent locking of file resources on windows systems. |
| Issue: EMAIL-120. Thanks to Mike Bell. |
| |
| * The patch actually broke sending emails over a secured connection - disabled the |
| "MAIL_SMTP_SSL_CHECKSERVERIDENTITY" and "MAIL_SMTP_SSL_ENABLE" activation. Tested |
| the functionality using GMail, GMX and Office365 so the code is at least working for |
| a couple of existing SMTP servers. Also added 'sslCheckServerIdentity' including |
| setter and getter. Also added a chapter regarding "Security" to the user manual. |
| Issue: EMAIL-105. Thanks to Siegfried Goeschl. |
| |
| * Maven Site fails with error in Checkstyle configuration. |
| Issue: EMAIL-113. Thanks to Peter Kofler. |
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| * DataSourceFileResolverTest fails under IBM JDK 1.4 and 1.6 running on Windows. |
| Issue: EMAIL-112. Thanks to Peter Kofler. |
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| * Update the current trunk to be binary compatible with the commons-email-1.2 release. |
| Issue: EMAIL-111. Thanks to Florian Pirchner. |
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| * Added unit test to ensure that parsing the broken mime message does not cause an OutOfMemoryException. |
| Issue: EMAIL-110. Thanks to Thomas Pummer. |
| |
| * Added mime.types to META-INF - the definition is actually found in activation.jar |
| but did not work. Issue: EMAIL-107. Thanks to Claus Polanka, Michael Jakl. |
| |
| * STARTTLS can be used even without authenticator. |
| Issue: EMAIL-106. Thanks to Bruno Harbulot. |
| |
| * Clarified the meaning of setTLS() which actually sends a "STARTTLS" command from the |
| client to the SMTP server. Please note that some "protected" variables were renamed |
| which could break existing code. |
| Issue: EMAIL-105. Thanks to Bruno Harbulot. |
| |
| * Fixed HtmlEmail embed toLowerCase bug with Turkish locale. |
| Issue: EMAIL-102. Thanks to Okan Özeren. |
| |
| * Specified Content-ID is now used when embedding a File object in an HtmlEmail. |
| Issue: EMAIL-101. Thanks to Andrew Starodub. |
| |
| * Throwing an IllegalStateException when setting mail session properties for an already |
| created mail session because the settings would be ignored. Please note that this |
| change could potentially break existing (but invalid) code. Issue: EMAIL-96. |
| |
| * Encoding and folding of headers is now done by commons-email. |
| Issue: EMAIL-98. Thanks to Mario Daepp. |
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| * The default connection timeout is set to a reasonable default value of 60 seconds. |
| Issue: EMAIL-100. Thanks to David Parks. |
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| * Moving the various constants from 'EMail' to 'EmailConstants' |
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| * All setters are returning "this" to simplify building an email. |
| Issue: EMAIL-76. Thanks to Yu Kobayashi. |
| |
| * Adding ImageHtmlEmail to create HTML emails with embedded images either |
| downloaded from HTTP or from the local file system. |
| Issue: EMAIL-92. Thanks to Dominik Stadler. |
| |
| * Calling buildMimeMessage() before invoking send() caused |
| duplicated mime parts for HtmlEmail. The implementation now enforces |
| that an email can be only used once and throw an exception when |
| multiple invocations of buildMimeMessage() are detected. |
| Issue: EMAIL-95. |
| |
| * Incorrect SMTP Port number shown in error message when an email fails |
| to send due to a blocked port and SSL is used. |
| Issue: EMAIL-91. Thanks to Kevin Lester. |
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| CHANGES FROM 1.1: |
| ----------------- |
| |
| == Compatibility == |
| |
| * Java 1.4 or later is now required. Earlier versions are no longer |
| supported by Sun. |
| |
| * JavaMail 1.4 or later and JavaBeans Activation Framework 1.1 or later are now |
| required. |
| |
| == New Features == |
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| * Email.setFrom and Email.addTo are using Email.charset to properly encode |
| the name. |
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| * SimpleEmail#setMsg() with UTF-8 content honors correct charset in header |
| and does encode the content correctly now. |
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| * Created additional methods to support timeouts. |
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| * Create an overridable method in Email.java to create the MimeMessage instance. |
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| * Add getTo and getReplyTo to Email class. |
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| == Fixed Bugs == |
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| * If setHostName() has not been called, getHostName() tries to return |
| this.session.getProperty(MAIL_HOST). If mail session has not been |
| created yet, this will throw a NullPointerException. Now getHostName() |
| checks that this.session is not null before trying to access it. |
| |
| * Provide better diagnostics when attaching documents fail. |
| |
| * When mail authentication is required and no username/password is supplied |
| than the provided mail session is used. If a username/password is found |
| the implementation creates a new mail session and a DefaultAuthenticator |
| as convenience implementation. |
| |
| * Using Kenneth's implementation of HtmlEmail.buildMimeMessage() to fix a |
| couple of HtmlEmail layout issues. Also thanks to Martin Lau and Morten |
| Hattesen for providing in-depth analysis of the problem. |
| |
| * During regression tests write out the generated MimeMessage instead of |
| WiserEmail.toString(). |
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| REQUIREMENTS: |
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| J2SE environments |
| ----------------- |
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| Commons Email requires JavaMail 1.4.1 or later. The Oracle implementation |
| is available at: |
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| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javamail/ |
| |
| However, the Apache Geronimo project (http://geronimo.apache.org) |
| provides a J2EE-certified implementation of the JavaMail 1.4 |
| specification licensed under the Apache Software License. |
| |
| Commons Email also requires the JavaBeans Activation Framework unless |
| you are running on Java SE 6 or later. The Oracle implementation is available |
| at: |
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| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index-135046.html |
| |
| Apache Geronimo likewise provides an implementation under the Apache |
| Software License. |
| |
| Commons Email has been tested with JDK 1.5 and 1.6. |
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| J2EE environments |
| ----------------- |
| |
| Commons Email is compatible with all certified Java Enterprise Edition |
| 5 implementations; no further dependencies are required. |
| |
| Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 users must ensure that the versions of |
| JavaMail and JAF indicated above are available to their applications; |
| the J2EE 1.4 specification only requires earlier versions. |
| |
| Earlier versions of J2EE are not supported. |
