I'm not sure you can do this yet easily. You could create the mail with javamail, then turn it into a jboss mail object. I had deprioritized creating the JCA service for doing this because I did not know we had anyone interested in doing this yet. I'll move it up for M5 (too late for M4). Ivelin and Scott will be very happy.

I've been trying this very same thing. If you're going to enable direct access to server via JCA, then I second moving the JCA service priority up -- I think it could be useful.

In the meantime, I was able to haggle something together in the following fashion (for whomever is interested):

1.) Assemble a javax.mail.Message with data (to, from, body, etc) taken from anywhere (I'm envisioning a servlet/jsp page in a webmail type system, for example).

2.) Get a handle to the SMTPProtocolMBean, and create an org.jboss.mail.message.Mail object as follows (much of this was taken from the Fetchmail.popper class):


String smtpProtocol = jboss.mail:name=SMTPProtocol,type=MailServices";
SMTPProtocolMBean spro = (SMTPProtocolMBean) JBMailJMXUtil.getMBean(smtpProtocol, SMTPProtocolMBean.class);

SMTPProtocolInstance proto = (SMTPProtocolInstance) spro.createInstance();

MailListenerChain chain = (MailListenerChain) proto.getProperty(SMTPConstants.MAIL_LISTENER_CHAIN);

BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(jMailMessage.getInputStream());
Mail mail = Mail.create(jMailMessage.getAllHeaders(), // all the headers
bis, // InputStream for the body
jMailMessage.getSize(), // blocksize
MailAddress.parseAddress(jMailMessage.getFrom()[0]), // sender
MailAddress.parseAddressArray(jMailMessage.getAllRecipients()), // receipients
proto); // SMTP

log.info("JBossMailServer Message created");
chain.processMail(mes);
proto.resetState();


3.) This seems to work, except you have to make sure that the body of the Javamail message ends in "\r\n.\r\n". In addition, most Header values like "Content-type", "Message-ID", "User-Agent", and other headers don't seem to get populated using this method. When you send a traditional Javamail message via SMTP, these do get populated, but in the case above, I'm guessing they're not showing up because the smtp transport is never actually used (?) -- the message is dumped directly into the JBoss mail server data store.

Anyway, I'm asking myself if this solution is any better than simply using Javamail to initiate an SMTP connection to JBMailServer, and send the message on that way.

It would seem to be more efficient to access the JBMail Server's database directly, though (JCA?)

The above will probably be faster than our ultimate JCA component which will put things on the queues and process them through the proper mail listener chains, but not drastically so. However, right now you might as well just use the bound JavaMail that comes with JBoss for everything you're getting out of this. We'll give you retrying and queueing, a certain guarantee of delivery and mail server support. The above doesn't. you could pretty easily add the headers yourself to the above if you wanted.

This should be easier to implement once the messgae refactoring is done.

In reference to JCA access, I'm wondering if there is any particular rationale for using JCA over web-services. Transaction & security context are an obvious thing, but not sure if these would be vital for accessing JBM, hence allowing a WebServices interface instead (or perhaps both)?

Any thoughts here?

David

JCA is in process, Web Services are not. JCA and Web Services are used to solve different problems. JCA is for managed in process connectivity to the JBMail Server (or any system) where as Web Services would be for external clients.

That being said it is unlikely that we will implement Web Services interface (by that I mean a JAX-RPC interface) we are more likely to use something like REST which is more like WebDAV.

Mike.

I would see implementing web services access to mail as something more for the web services guys to do than for us. That would be in another scope outside of this project. As for internal functionality unless there is a compelling reason to use web services somewhere I wholly object to all forms of needless bloat so that probably means most places where we "could" use web services we may use lighter things. (not that JCA is light but "the man" wants it)

PS I wish this POS forum posting thingy would let me just write in the quick reply and hit submit rather than having to hit "post reply" and under a browser that a sane person would use. Even my wife (accountant) no longer uses IE because she got sick of adware and "issues"...

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