The JavaMail(TM) API provides a set of abstract classes that model a mail system. The API provides a platform independent and protocol independent framework to build Java technology-based mail and messaging applications. The JavaMail API is implemented as a Java platform standard extension. Sun provides this royalty-free reference implementation, in binary form, that developers will be able to use and ship. WWW: http://www.javasoft.com/products/javamail/index.html