yeah, I just mean that. it's much like the api of javamail itself, but we can provide more conventient usage than it. most important is the efficiency of sending mails in a batch.
On Feb 20, 2008 7:17 PM, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mean something like this? > > EmailTransmission trans = new EmailTransmission(); > trans.setHostName("smtp.myserver.org"); > > HtmlEmail email1 = new HtmlEmail(); > ... > HtmlEmail email2 = new HtmlEmail(); > ... > > trans.addEmail(email1); > trans.addEmail(email2); > .. > trans.send(); > > Sounds useful to me. > > cheers > -- > Torsten > > On 20.02.2008, at 06:10, zheng hao wrote: > > > hi all Commons Email dev, > > > > I found when i want to send several emails in one connection, > > Commons Email > > doesn't help. It connects to the SMTP server per email, and it > > spends more > > time on authentication than sending the mails themselve (most SMTP > > server > > needs authentication). So I have to code on the javamail api directly, > > something like: > > > > SMTPSSLTransport strans = (SMTPSSLTransport) > > sess.getTransport(); > > strans.connect(); > > int num = 1000; > > for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) { > > SMTPMessage email = createMessage(sess, num); > > strans.sendMessage(email, email.getAllRecipients()); > > } > > strans.close(); > > > > In my straightforward test, it saves me 2/3 of the time. So I think > > it would > > be nice to add this kind of function into Commons Email, to make it > > more > > useful. My suggestion is to extract a clean bean Email, which > > contains all > > email dependent information, e.g. TO, CC, Subject, etc, but leaves > > out all > > host/server dependent information, e.g. authenticator, host > > address, host > > port, etc. After that, we can still provide simple convenience > > method for > > those who only want to send one mail every time. And it is possible > > to add > > methods like 'addEmail' to add several mails before sending, and > > later on, > > when it is called 'send', we can send them in one SMTP connection. > > Does it > > useful? Thank you all. > > > > Hao Zheng > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >