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20.3. Configuration

Include jboss-seam-mail.jar in your WEB-INF/lib directory to include email support in your application. If you use JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, no further configuration is required. If you do not use EAP, make sure you have the JavaMail API and a copy of the Java Active Framework. The versions distributed with Seam are lib/mail.jar and lib/activation.jar respectively.)

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The Seam Mail module requires both the use of the seam-ui package, and that Facelets be used as the view technology. Future versions of the library may also support the use of JSP.
The mailSession component uses JavaMail to talk to a 'real' SMTP server.

20.3.1. mailSession
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If you are working in a Java EE 5 environment, a JavaMail session may be available through a JNDI look up. Otherwise, you can use a Seam-configured session.
The mailSession component's properties are described in more detail in Section 30.9, “Mail-related components”.

20.3.1.1. JNDI look up in EAP
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The JBossAS deploy/mail-service.xml configures a JavaMail session binding into JNDI. The default service configuration must be altered for your network. http://wiki.jboss. org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JavaMail describes the service in more detail. 
<components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components" 
            xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core" 
            xmlns:mail="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail"> 
  <mail:mail-session session-jndi-name="java:/Mail"/> 
</components>
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Here, we tell Seam to retrieve the mail session bound to java:/Mail from JNDI.

20.3.1.2. Seam-configured Session
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A mail session can be configured via components.xml. Here we tell Seam to use smtp.example.com as the SMTP server: 
<components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components" 
            xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core" 
            xmlns:mail="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail"> 
  <mail:mail-session host="smtp.example.com"/> 
</components>
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