Tiger JMail is a direct replacement for Sun's javamail,
but with an LGPL license and fewer bugs.
TJ works with both the Kaffe and Sun JVMs.
It's tested, maintained, and in active use.
TJ works well, but there's lots of room for improvement. Hop in!
Installation
To install, just put the distribution jar file in your classpath.
You can rename it to javamail.jar if you like.
Because Sun's JVM uses its own javamail by default, to use Tiger JMail
add this to your command line:
-Xbootclasspath/p:javamail.jar
Use the full pathname to TJ's jar in place of "javamail.jar".
With the Kaffe JVM just put TJ in the classpath as usual.
The jar file also contains source and docs.
Source files are in the same directories as the executable class files.
An open source replacement for Sun's Java Activation Framework is
also included.
If you want to rebuild from source, rename the jar to .zip and extract the files
into a fresh directory. At a command prompt in that directory type
ant clean
ant build
See the documentation for java.mail.Session for details on TJ's logging
support. To generate javadocs, use
ant api
TJ is a fork of the last LGPL version of the classpathx mail project,
plus critical bug fixes and enhancements. See the file docs/mail/whyforked
for details. Thanks to the classpathx people for the enormous amount of work
they contributed.
