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Ankur
Ankur

Reputation: 51110

Be able to send an email to an email address, and have that appear on a web page

I want to be able to send an email to an email address, and then have it appear on a web page. Is this possible?

My guess is you'd have to write your own email server, something which I am not capable of doing. So I am assuming this won't be possible for me.

But if there is some way it can be done, that would be great. I generally program in Java and use Tomcat as my app server.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 86

Answers (3)

user1252434
user1252434

Reputation: 2121

You don't need to write your own mail server. You can use an ordinary (external) mail server and poll its inbox via POP3 or IMAP from your software. This introduces a short delay up to the full poll interval, but that might or might not be acceptable for you.

I can't give you a good tip for a email client lib to use for that, though.

Upvotes: 1

erickson
erickson

Reputation: 269717

No, you wouldn't have to run your own SMTP server. You'd simply need to be able to retrieve mail from a POP3 or IMAP server, using something like the mail client API found in javax.mail.

It would be up to you to decide how much control you'd give to users. For example, who specifies the IMAP settings? Who decides which messages to fetch and display? Maybe that's all pre-configured. Maybe you write full-featured, web-based email client that can send messages as well as retrieve. This is all determined through the design of your web application.

Upvotes: 1

Eugene Kuleshov
Eugene Kuleshov

Reputation: 31795

Here is a simple example of sending email trough Google's SMTP server.

Upvotes: 0

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