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Spring: how to send a mail

Spring has module for email sending. First one need to configure mail sender bean. Actually there are two mail sender implementations. The first one is MailSender that can be used for simple mails. For advanced mails (MIME support) JavaMailSender must be used. It is good practice to divide your configuration into several files, so we'll put mailing configuration into service-mail.xml (or you can choose your own name) and then include that file into main config file. Just for example we'll use gmail as SMTP server so configuration looks like this: true true Spring needs two additional libraries: javax.mail and javax.activation. For maven users: simply add dependency for javax.mail (groupId: javax.mail, artifactId: mail) into your projects pom.xml. Now we can implement our mailing service: @Service("mailService") public class