Maven dependency for javax.mail

Question

What is the maven dependency i should add for

import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;

Adding the maven dependency from here http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.mail/mail/1.5.0-b01 makes some of the jersey dependencies unable to retrieve error. What do you think is going wrong?

The correct answer to this depends upon whether or not you are deploying to a Java EE server, servlet container or building a standalone application. — Steve C, Apr 20 '17 at 11:41
In that case @MitulGedeeya 's answer is appropriate, although I'd use version 1.5.6. The linked solution to your download problem is a bit severe though - you normally just need to append `-U` to your maven command line to fix the cached failure problem. In any event that is a different question — Steve C, Apr 20 '17 at 12:29
@SteveC You are right. Sometimes it won't take dependency from maven but instead it uses cache. So, by putting -U must resolve problem. — Mitul Gedeeya, Apr 20 '17 at 13:16
@BalajiVignesh Hello, Let us inform whether you resolved problem or not? — Mitul Gedeeya, Apr 20 '17 at 17:37

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '21 at 18:04

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The version 1.6.3 had been the last version of JavaMail; since 2019-07-03, the new name for it is "Jakarta Mail".

Together with the name change also the Maven coordinates got different:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.sun.mail</groupId>
  <artifactId>jakarta.mail</artifactId>
  <version>…</version>
</dependency>

The project homepage can be found here: https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/mail/

answered May 27 '21 at 18:04

tquadrat

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just to follow up, with the latest version as for now it'll look like this: com.sun.mail jakarta.mail 2.0.1 – konnovdev Oct 06 '22 at 14:14

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '17 at 11:15

3

We are using following dependency:

<dependency>
      <groupId>com.sun.mail</groupId>
      <artifactId>javax.mail</artifactId>
</dependency>

answered Apr 20 '17 at 11:15

Mitul Gedeeya

I am getting this error on adding com.sun.mail. ArtifactDescriptorException: Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.sun.mail:javax.mail:jar:1.5.2: ArtifactResolutionException: Failure to transfer com.sun.mail:javax.mail:pom:1.5.2 from http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced. Original error: Could not transfer artifact com.sun.mail:javax.mail:pom:1.5.2 from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): repo.maven.apache.org – Balaji Vignesh Apr 20 '17 at 11:20
For that Error [This Link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5074063/maven-error-failure-to-transfer) will resolve your issue. – Mitul Gedeeya Apr 20 '17 at 11:24
Or You can just check whether in .m2 folder, there will be cached dependency available. just remove that folder and update project. – Mitul Gedeeya Apr 20 '17 at 11:26
I have tried removing the folder in the .m2 but facing the same error – Balaji Vignesh Apr 20 '17 at 11:45
Hmm. for last time can you please check with the any fixed version of dependency i have given in answer? because we are using the same and our project works. – Mitul Gedeeya Apr 20 '17 at 13:05

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