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Don't trust Javamail.... (Score:1)
Besides the fact that I use Mime::Lite for the majority of my tasks where I need to send email from an application, I also don't trust Javamail to get the job done.
More than one occasion I have run into issues where Javamail never emitted any sort of error but the email did not get sent.
My solution: have Java hand email requests off to Perl through a database.
create table email_request (
email_request_id serial not null primary key,
subject text not null,
message text not null,
from text not null,
reply_to text
);
create table email_recipients (
email_recipient_id serial not null primary key,
recipient text not null,
email_request_id integer not null
references
email_request(email_request_id)
);
A cron job then processes the requests and then removes them when done. I use transactions to make sure that a cron execution doesn't process a request before Java has a chance to finish making the request.
Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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