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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:52:07 -0400
From: Christopher Schultz <chris@christopherschultz.net>
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Mark,

On 8/6/12 12:59 PM, Mark Eggers wrote:
> There are a lot of properties available, but unfortunately there is
> no password. However, the hint is there (in the paragraph that you
> quoted).
> 
> After trolling the source for Tomcat 6 (and a bit of searching on
> the Internet), it appears that a password can be specified. The
> source in question is:
> 
> org.apache.naming.factory.MailSessionFactory.java
> 
> The attribute is password (in the Resource definition). That looks
> like the only additional (non JavaMail API) attribute / property
> that this factory supports (hence the hint).

I actually didn't know that. I had forgotten to mention that this is a
possibilty:

Session session = ... ; //get from JNDI
Transport tx = session.getTransport(...);

tx.connect(host, rt, username, password);

...but if Tomcat will do it for you, why not let it?

> I've never been fond of maintaining the same information in
> multiple places, so postfix is probably good in this environment.
> 
> Sounds like I should submit a couple of patches to the
> documentation.
> 
> 1. Add the paragraph from Tomcat 7 back into Tomcat 6 2. Add a
> paragraph to both stating that Tomcat's MailSessionFactory supports
> "password" as the only additional attribute / property.

That would be great.

Thanks,
- -chris
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